Manchester University Press
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Abstract
Part of a series of four dialogues with contemporary art and writing practitioners whose work represents a critical intervention in thinking about gesture, politics, and embodiment – across art, writing, and theory – and the various entanglements found therein. This collaborative dialogue on gesture as writing is written by Kathleen Stewart and Lauren Berlant.
Abstract
Part of a series of four dialogues with contemporary art and writing practitioners whose work represents a critical intervention in thinking about gesture, politics, and embodiment – across art, writing, and theory – and the various entanglements found therein. This collaborative dialogue on gesture as writing is written by Kathleen Stewart and Lauren Berlant.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of contributors x
- Acknowledgements xvii
- Foreword xix
- Introduction 1
- I Scrawl 25
- 1 The intelligent hand 27
- 2 Without word without voice blind gesture 36
- 3 ‘Language, of course, being gesture’ 47
- 4 Writing dreaming drawing 59
- II Caress 73
- 5 Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions 75
- 6 The massage is the medium 92
- 7 Et in arcadia xerox 99
- III Mutter 113
- 8 My chimeras 115
- 9 Speaking silence 122
- 10 Mamaiaith 130
- 11 Cliché is the sediment of sentiment that collects in my ear 139
- 12 ‘The strength of the gesture to move like a poem’ 148
- IV Scratch 163
- 13 My skin is a riot 165
- 14 Cutting into unmarked pleasures 184
- 15 Learning from silent teachers 197
- 16 Returning to the scene of hurt 206
- V Reach 219
- 17 Gestures for feminist transmissions 221
- 18 Between the departures and arrivals 231
- 19 Feminism’s un/common rituals 242
- 20 ‘I want a literature that is not made from literature’ 251
- VI Dialogues on gesture 265
- 21 ‘Flight [Gestures] in a Galaxy of Centres’ 267
- 22 So many social things happen with a bent head 286
- 23 In excess of the one, two 296
- 24 Gesture, a build 312
- Afterword 317
- Index 322
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of contributors x
- Acknowledgements xvii
- Foreword xix
- Introduction 1
- I Scrawl 25
- 1 The intelligent hand 27
- 2 Without word without voice blind gesture 36
- 3 ‘Language, of course, being gesture’ 47
- 4 Writing dreaming drawing 59
- II Caress 73
- 5 Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions 75
- 6 The massage is the medium 92
- 7 Et in arcadia xerox 99
- III Mutter 113
- 8 My chimeras 115
- 9 Speaking silence 122
- 10 Mamaiaith 130
- 11 Cliché is the sediment of sentiment that collects in my ear 139
- 12 ‘The strength of the gesture to move like a poem’ 148
- IV Scratch 163
- 13 My skin is a riot 165
- 14 Cutting into unmarked pleasures 184
- 15 Learning from silent teachers 197
- 16 Returning to the scene of hurt 206
- V Reach 219
- 17 Gestures for feminist transmissions 221
- 18 Between the departures and arrivals 231
- 19 Feminism’s un/common rituals 242
- 20 ‘I want a literature that is not made from literature’ 251
- VI Dialogues on gesture 265
- 21 ‘Flight [Gestures] in a Galaxy of Centres’ 267
- 22 So many social things happen with a bent head 286
- 23 In excess of the one, two 296
- 24 Gesture, a build 312
- Afterword 317
- Index 322