Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture / Carrie Noland

By:

Noland, Carrie, 1958- [autor]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009Description: 264 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9780674034518

Subject(s):

Contents:

Conté: The "structuring" body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques -- Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement -- Inscription and embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the body as tool -- Inscription as performance: Henri Michaux and the writing body -- The gestural performative: locating agency in the work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon -- Conclusion: illegible graffiti -- Notes -- Acknowlegdgements -- Index

Summary: "In Agency and Embodiment, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained" -- Contracoberta

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	39 NOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900087481

Índex

"In Agency and Embodiment, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained" -- Contracoberta

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