Content

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Sex, Drugs and Bicycles. Alfred Jarry’s “Le surmâle” and the Aesthetics of Energy-Enhancing Strength 9
5. Force of Gravity/Power of Labour—or: Heaving Stones 23
6. Bodies, Suspended. Eadweard Muybridge and the Allure of “Unsupported Transit” 43
7. Embodied Experiences of Force. Carabin’s Anthropomorphic Fauteuils and the “Muscular Sense” in late 19^th Century Medicine 57
8. Visualising the Muscular Force. Charcot’s and Féré’s Approaches to Exploring the Neurophysiology of Movement in Hysteria Patients 81
9. The Feeling of Forces. Robert Mayer’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Physics and Metaphysics of the Body 103
10. Movement, Muscle, Matter. Jef Lambeaux’s Wrestling Groups of the 1880s and 1890s 123
11. A Fix of Energy. Joseph Beuys Boxing 143
12. Body Sculpting. Paradessent Strategies in Contemporary Art 157
13. Sweat, Strain and Surplus in Mika Rottenberg’s “Tropical Breeze” 173
14. Authors 189
15. Credits 193