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String Figures: A Cultural Practice between Art, Anthropology, and Theory.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical theory.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Essay Collection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Diaphanes, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, lengths of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. Whatever else they may be, they have often been explored by artists, ethnologists and theorists: as an aesthetic practice, as something to collect, as a non-Western way of thinking. In recent years, string figures have gained prominence in cultural theory. Donna Haraway promotes string figures as a method of thinking and collaboration between both disciplines and species. Rather than the technicist and rigid metaphor of the network, Haraway's string figures provide a playful, process-oriented, embodied, performative (and non-Western) mode of thought in which responsibility and collaboration are foregrounded. Looking at ways of playing together on the ruins of our history the publication brings together different threads and seeks to weave connections between world regions and disciplines."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- CC BY.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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