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The Political Life of Sensation
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Davide Panagia
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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A work of political theory arguing that sensation—the taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of film images—plays a crucial role of political life.
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Davide Panagia is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of The Poetics of Political Thinking, also published by Duke University Press.
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“This smart and ambitious book contributes to a growing body of work in political theory that attempts to illuminate the connections among politics, culture, theory, and aesthetics, thereby broadening our understanding of the kinds of phenomena that count as political in contemporary multicultural politics. . . . [T]his is a very important book that offers valuable ways to better comprehend the imbrications of politics, culture, and aesthetics in contemporary multicultural democracy.” - Robert E. Watkins, Perspectives on Politics
“Davide Panagia develops a provocative contribution to democratic political theory. . . . His arguments are persuasive and refreshing. . . . [T]he work on the whole is rich and innovative.” - Parie Leung, Canadian Literature
“‘The first political act is also an aesthetic one.’ From this provocative postulate The Political Life of Sensation develops a refreshingly innovative theory of the image for which the force of sensation figures as a force for democracy. As interruptive as it is instaurational, both dissensual and convivial, the power of the image is brought by Davide Panagia to a new and original theoretical expression. The book weaves seamlessly between penetrating analyses of key political and philosophical thinkers and of cultural formations from the piazzas of Italy to the Thanksgiving table. A forceful and convincing apologia for an ‘ethics of appearance.’”—Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
“With this remarkable book, Davide Panagia chops off the head of political theory’s ruling narratocracy. The challenge he thereby raises is nothing less than a call for reconfiguring democracy as a realm of the senses.”—Jodi Dean, author of Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics
“Davide Panagia develops a provocative contribution to democratic political theory. . . . His arguments are persuasive and refreshing. . . . [T]he work on the whole is rich and innovative.”
-- Parie Leung Canadian Literature
“This smart and ambitious book contributes to a growing body of work in political theory that attempts to illuminate the connections among politics, culture, theory, and aesthetics, thereby broadening our understanding of the kinds of phenomena that count as political in contemporary multicultural politics. . . . [T]his is a very important book that offers valuable ways to better comprehend the imbrications of politics, culture, and aesthetics in contemporary multicultural democracy.”
-- Robert E. Watkins Perspectives on Politics
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Contents
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Prologue: Narratocracy and the Contours of Political Life
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One: From Nomos to Nomad: Kant, Deleuze, and Rancière on Sensation
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Two: The Piazza, the Edicola, and the Noise of the Utterance
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Three: Machiavelli’s Theory of Sensation and Florence’s Vita Festiva
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Four: The Viewing Subject: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring
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Five: ‘‘You’re Eating Too Fast!’’: Slow Food’s Ethos of Convivium
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Epilogue: ‘‘The Photographs Tell It All’’: On an Ethics of Appearance
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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April 17, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780822390817
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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232
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11 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822390817
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Professional and scholarly;
