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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791057203321

Autore

Manning Erin

Titolo

Thought in the act : passages in the ecology of experience / / Erin Manning and Brian Massumi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4529-4843-7

0-8166-7967-3

1-4529-4227-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Classificazione

PHI000000ART000000ART009000

Disciplina

153.3/5

Soggetti

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Philosophy

Aesthetics

Thought and thinking - Philosophy

Experience

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Passages -- Coming Alive in a World of Texture: For Neurodiversity -- A Perspective of the Universe: Alfred North Whitehead Meets Arakawa and Gins -- Just Like That: William Forsythe between Movement and Language -- No Title Yet: Bracha Ettinger Moved By Light -- Part II. Propositions -- For Thought in the Act -- Postscript to Generating the Impossible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

" "Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world's varied ways of affording itself." --from Thought in the Act    Combining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition between the conceptual and the aesthetic, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi "think through" a wide range of creative practices in the process of their making, revealing how thinking and artfulness are intimately, creatively, and inseparably intertwined. They rediscover this



intertwining at the heart of everyday perception and investigate its potential for new forms of activism at the crossroads of politics and art.Emerging from active collaborations, the book analyzes the experiential work of the architects and conceptual artists Arakawa and Gins, the improvisational choreographic techniques of William Forsythe, the recent painting practice of Bracha Ettinger, as well as autistic writers' self-descriptions of their perceptual world and the experimental event making of the SenseLab collective. Drawing from the idiosyncratic vocabularies of each creative practice, and building on the vocabulary of process philosophy, the book reactivates rather than merely describes the artistic processes it examines. The result is a thinking-with and a writing-in-collaboration-with these processes and a demonstration of how philosophy co-composes with the act in the making. Thought in the Act goes beyond proposing to enact a collaborative mode of thinking in the act at the intersection of art, philosophy, and politics. "--