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Agency and Embodiment
Performing Gestures/Producing Culture
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Carrie Noland
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained.
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Carrie Noland challenges Michel Foucault’s metaphor of bodily inscription by proposing gesture as scriptural—having the characteristics of writing. Agency and Embodiment constitutes a highly original contribution to thinking on the body, power, and culture across fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective.
-- Mark Franko, Professor of Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz
-- Mark Franko, Professor of Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz
This highly original book brilliantly rethinks one of the crucial blind spots of poststructuralist theory—the evasiveness about, or failure to resolve, issues of agency. Agency and Embodiment is an extremely important and intelligently articulated intervention into the profound dilemmas we face in understanding how to navigate the complexities of contemporary cultural landscapes.
-- Amelia Jones, Professor and Pilkington Chair in the History of Art, University of Manchester
-- Amelia Jones, Professor and Pilkington Chair in the History of Art, University of Manchester
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February 15, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780674054387
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272
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9780674054387
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