Sentient Performativities of Embodiment
Thinking alongside the Human
Published on 5. May 2016
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-1-4985-2720-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.
Reviews / Votes
What does it mean to feel? Sentient Performativities of Embodiment considers both the social resonance and the political stakes of this question by concentrating the study of affect more closely upon the site of the inexorably mortal human body. By convening an impressive group of scholars whose research sites challenge simplistic distinctions between 'the aesthetic' and 'the real,' Hunter, Krimmer, and Lichtenfels have crafted an anthology that compels us to return our attention to the lived complexity of feeling as a material register of human experience. This beautifully curated book will expand critical conversations between affect studies and performance studies, restoring in our consideration of feeling the fleshy, corporeal timbre of the felt. -- Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego Sentient Performativities of Embodiment: Thinking alongside the Human is an immense effort; broad in scope and comprehensive in its attempt to foreground practice-based research in the Arts. This type of scholarship has been gaining ground within a number of prominent institutions and the authors should be congratulated for bringing the views of so many excellent artists/scholars together in one volume. -- Henry Daniel, Simon Fraser UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
716 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-2720-0 (9781498527200)
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Thinking Alongside the Human
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Sentient Performativities of Embodiment
Thinking Alongside the Human
E-Book
05/2016
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€124.99
Available for download
Persons
Lynette Hunter is professor of history of rhetoric and performance at the University of California, Davis.
Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
Peter Lichtenfels is professor of theater and dramatic arts at the University of California, Davis.
Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
Peter Lichtenfels is professor of theater and dramatic arts at the University of California, Davis.
Content
Introduction: Ways of Knowing and Ways of Being Known by Lynette Hunter
Part I: The Body in Performance-Somatic Complexity
Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy Morton
Chapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O'Connor Chapter 3. The Petrie Dish: Somatic Praxis, Embryology, Becoming in Marie Chouinard's "The Rite of Spring" by Hilary Bryan
Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess Curtis
Part II: The Body in Performance-Attentiveness
Chapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little
Chapter 6. JUST LIKE THAT: William Forsythe || Between Movement and Language by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean Feit
Part III: The Body in Performance-Emergence
Chapter 8. Transversal Affectivity and the Lobster: Intimate Advances of Deleuze and Guattari, Rodrigo Garcia and La Carniceria Teatro, and Jan Lauwers and Needcompany by Bryan Reynolds & Guy Zimmerman
Chapter 9. Kantor's DIRECTOR: "I will be myself, but I will be with the actors" by Peter Lichtenfels
Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies Writing
Chapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Alvaro Ivan Hernandez Rodriguez
Chapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya Noe
Chapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen Burdock
Part V: Bodies-Critical Race, Politics and History
Chapter 13. Jewish Ears and Aryan Dirndls: National Socialist Racial Ideology and Jewish Identity by Elisabeth Krimmer
Chapter 14. "So That They Never Forget the Holocaust:" Memorial Tattoos and Embodied Holocaust Remembrance by Verena Hutter
Chapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig
Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare
Part I: The Body in Performance-Somatic Complexity
Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy Morton
Chapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O'Connor Chapter 3. The Petrie Dish: Somatic Praxis, Embryology, Becoming in Marie Chouinard's "The Rite of Spring" by Hilary Bryan
Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess Curtis
Part II: The Body in Performance-Attentiveness
Chapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little
Chapter 6. JUST LIKE THAT: William Forsythe || Between Movement and Language by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean Feit
Part III: The Body in Performance-Emergence
Chapter 8. Transversal Affectivity and the Lobster: Intimate Advances of Deleuze and Guattari, Rodrigo Garcia and La Carniceria Teatro, and Jan Lauwers and Needcompany by Bryan Reynolds & Guy Zimmerman
Chapter 9. Kantor's DIRECTOR: "I will be myself, but I will be with the actors" by Peter Lichtenfels
Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies Writing
Chapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Alvaro Ivan Hernandez Rodriguez
Chapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya Noe
Chapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen Burdock
Part V: Bodies-Critical Race, Politics and History
Chapter 13. Jewish Ears and Aryan Dirndls: National Socialist Racial Ideology and Jewish Identity by Elisabeth Krimmer
Chapter 14. "So That They Never Forget the Holocaust:" Memorial Tattoos and Embodied Holocaust Remembrance by Verena Hutter
Chapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig
Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare