Erin Manning is University Research Chair in Philosophy and Relational Art and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She is the author of Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy and Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty and coauthor, with Brian Massumi, of Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (forthcoming).
Request Academic Copy
Please copy the ISBN for submitting review copy form
Description
Prelude / Brian Massumi ix Acknowledgments xxv 1. Toward a Leaky Sense of Self 1 Interlude. When Movement Dances 13 2. Always More Than One 16 Interlude. Dancing the Virtual 30 3. Waltzing the Limit 41 4. Propositions for the Verge 74 Interlude. What Else? 91 5. Choreography as Mobile Architecture 99 Interlude. Fiery, Luminous, Scary 124 6. The Dance of Attention 133 7. An Ethics of Language in the Making 149 Interlude. Love the Anonymous Elements 172 8. The Shape of Enthusiasm 184 Coda. Another Regard 204 Notes 223 Bibliography 257 Index 267
"Erin Manning's book offers a philosophy of neurodiverse perception, encouraging us 'not to begin with the pre-chunked.' How ironic, then, that the impulse to categorize and to pathologize is generally seen as evidence of the normate's proper functioning. In Manning's splendid book, autism comes to signify not a disorder but a relational' dance of attention,' one that refuses to strand any entity at the margin of our concern." - Ralph James Savarese, coeditor of "Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity," a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.