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Minor Gesture

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvErin Manning

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In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor gesture's power to fashion relations, its capacity to open new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world-in particular what Manning terms "autistic perception." Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis and Whitehead's speculative pragmatism, Manning's far-reaching analyses range from fashion to depression to the writings of autistics, in each case affirming the neurodiversity of the minor and the alternative politics it gestures toward.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-03
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThought in the Act
Antal sidor288
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822361213

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Preface ixIntroduction: In a Minor Key 11. Against Method 262. Artfulness: Emergent Collectives and Processes of Individuation 463. Weather Patterns, or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment 644. Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of Form 865. Choreographing the Political 1116. Carrying the Feeling 1317. In the Act: The Shape of Precarity 1658. What a Body Can Do: A Conversation with Arno Boehler 189Postscript: Affirmation without Credit 201Notes 233References 261Index 269

"Manning emphasizes a kind of affect that brings to the fore a feeling of being a part of a larger environment, something relational, something that helps people to see themselves as part of something bigger." - Karen Simecek (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "The Minor Gesture is a fascinating and intellectually challenging book that successfully problematises common-sense (neurotypical) understandings of perception, action and embodiment. In doing so it politicises mundane everyday experience and calls for sustained critique of normatively framed lifeworlds." - Ben Simmons (Disability & Society) "A wide-ranging and carefully argued book. . . . Now that we know just how much mental activity escapes our conscious awareness and defies standard and dialectical accounts of knowledge, reason, and agency, efforts like Manning’s to better understand neurodiversity and to mobilize that understanding for research-creation and political activism alike are invaluable." - Eugene W. Holland (Contemporary Political Theory)