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Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space

On Board Motility
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Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board Motility draws from critical cultural studies, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, urban sociology, and poststructuralist theory in the context of human communication and performance to construct an epistemology of riding boards. This book ponders why we move the way we do and examines the ways in which movements communicate, developing, as a result, a theoretical perspective or board motility that is gestural and fluid, moving in relation to shifting social and physical landscapes. By combining the discourses and practices of critical theory and physical movement, this text presents a sustained analysis of radical political philosophy. In the book the symbolic narratives associated with each physical practice are deconstructed as their theoretical counterparts are thoroughly established. Then, through performance, the author narrows the divide between these two forms of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, outlining and embodying an ontological and epistemological stoke in the process that emerges from riding boards, on both waves and streets.
Introduction: On Board Motility and Everyday Movement PART I: Foundations I. Riding Waves and Critical Cultural Practice II. Street Skateboarding and Radical Spatial Inquiry III. Proto-Poststructuralist Thought and Motility IV. Spatial Subjectivity and Everyday Practitioners V: Performing Situational Space and Presence PART II: Situations VI: The Commute VII: Seven Days of Waves I VIII: The Skateboarding Derive IX: Seven Days of Waves II X: Working with Waves Works Cited Index About the Author
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