Body Between Materiality And Power

Download Body Between Materiality And Power full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Body Between Materiality And Power ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Body between Materiality and Power

Author : Nasheli Jiménez del Val
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812803
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Body between Materiality and Power by : Nasheli Jiménez del Val

Download or read book Body between Materiality and Power written by Nasheli Jiménez del Val and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework. By proposing materiality and power as two polarities through which the body is mobilized, it highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics beyond the body/soul-mind dichotomy. Specifically, the book brings together complex analytical approaches to representations of the body in diverse media, such as the visual arts, television, film, literature, architecture, dance, and theatre, among others. As a result, and to highlight the interdisciplinary dimension of this collection of essays, Body between Power and Materiality includes texts by scholars in a wide range of fields, from art historians, media studies experts, and sociologists to literary theorists.

Bodies that Matter

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415903660
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodies that Matter by : Judith Butler

Download or read book Bodies that Matter written by Judith Butler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Gender Trouble" further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most material dimensions of sex and sexuality. Butler examines how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the matter of bodies, sex, and gender.

Mistaken Identity

Author : Asad Haider
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637383
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mistaken Identity by : Asad Haider

Download or read book Mistaken Identity written by Asad Haider and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structure. Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, theoretical exegesis, and protest reportage, Mistaken Identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond colorblind chauvinism and “the ideology of race.”

Power in Modernity

Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668959X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Power in Modernity by : Isaac Ariail Reed

Download or read book Power in Modernity written by Isaac Ariail Reed and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Power in Modernity, Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space, create a vast network of intersecting alliances, subordinations, redistributions, and violent exclusions. Reed traces the common action of “sending someone else to do something for you” as it expands outward into the hierarchies that control territories, persons, artifacts, minds, and money. He mobilizes this theory to investigate the onset of modernity in the Atlantic world, with a focus on rebellion, revolution, and state formation in colonial North America, the early American Republic, the English Civil War, and French Revolution. Modernity, Reed argues, dismantled the “King’s Two Bodies”—the monarch’s physical body and his ethereal, sacred second body that encompassed the body politic—as a schema of representation for forging power relations. Reed’s account then offers a new understanding of the democratic possibilities and violent exclusions forged in the name of “the people,” as revolutionaries sought new ways to secure delegation, build hierarchy, and attack alterity. Reconsidering the role of myth in modern politics, Reed proposes to see the creative destruction and eternal recurrence of the King’s Two Bodies as constitutive of the modern attitude, and thus as a new starting point for critical theory. Modernity poses in a new way an eternal human question: what does it mean to be the author of one’s own actions?

Body Matters

Author : Luci Attala
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786834162
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Body Matters by : Luci Attala

Download or read book Body Matters written by Luci Attala and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Matters approaches the material world directly; it seeks to remind people that they are the matter of their bodies. This volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon and co-create human bodies. This lively collection foregrounds myriad material influences interacting with and shaping the human body; the chapters come together to illustrate the fundamental fleshy, bony, suppurating, leaky and oozing physicality of being human. Ultimately, by reminding readers of their indisputable materiality, Body Matters seeks to draw people and the rest of the material world together to illustrate that bodies not only seep into (and are part of) the landscape, but equally that people and the material world are inextricably co-constitutive.

Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving

Author : John Chase
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859848074
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving by : John Chase

Download or read book Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving written by John Chase and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An architectural designer and an important architectural critic, Chase explores a myriad of locales and examines their architectural features - from the gay community space of West Hollywood, to the stucco box apartment complexes of the 1950s, to the truly weird mix of domestic arrangements in Venice Beach, to gated communities, to some of the historic houses of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and to the most recent transformations of the casino architecture in Las Vegas."--BOOK JACKET.

The Material Subject

Author : Urmila Mohan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000185400
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Material Subject by : Urmila Mohan

Download or read book The Material Subject written by Urmila Mohan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment, practices, techniques, materiality and power. Through theoretical sophistication and empirical field research, case studies from Europe, Africa and Asia bring MaP’s ideas into dialogue with other strands of material culture studies in the English-speaking world. These studies mediate different scales of engagement through a sensori-motor, affective and cognitive focus on practices of making and doing. Examples range from the precarity of professional divers in French public works to the gendered subjectivity of female carpet weavers in Morocco, from the ways Swiss watchmakers transmit craft knowledge to how Hindu devotees in India make efficacious use of altars, and from the enskilment of Paiwan indigenous people in Taiwan to the prestige of women’s wild silk wrappers in Burkina Faso. The chapters are organised according to domains of practice, defined as 'matter of' work and technology, heritage, politics, religion and knowledge. Scholars and students with an interest in material culture will gain valuable access to global research, rooted in a specific intellectual tradition.

Assuming a Body

Author : Gayle Salamon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149581
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Assuming a Body by : Gayle Salamon

Download or read book Assuming a Body written by Gayle Salamon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory, Gayle Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans experience for thinking embodiment.

Bodies That Matter

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134711344
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodies That Matter by : Judith Butler

Download or read book Bodies That Matter written by Judith Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory.

Vibrant Matter

Author : Jane Bennett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391627
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Vibrant Matter by : Jane Bennett

Download or read book Vibrant Matter written by Jane Bennett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events. Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the “vital force” inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a “green materialist” ecophilosophy.

Bodies That Matter

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136807187
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodies That Matter by : Judith Butler

Download or read book Bodies That Matter written by Judith Butler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather.

Materials of Culture

Author : Liedeke Plate
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839466970
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Materials of Culture by : Liedeke Plate

Download or read book Materials of Culture written by Liedeke Plate and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.

Bodily Natures

Author : Stacy Alaimo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004837
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodily Natures by : Stacy Alaimo

Download or read book Bodily Natures written by Stacy Alaimo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

Engaging with Irigaray

Author : Carolyn Burke
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231078978
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Engaging with Irigaray by : Carolyn Burke

Download or read book Engaging with Irigaray written by Carolyn Burke and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of these essays--including Judith Butler, Elizabeth Weed, and Rosi Braidotti--shed new light on the relationship of Irigaray to many of the philosophers she has "romanced," from Aristotle to Deleuze.

Costume in Performance

Author : Donatella Barbieri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147423688X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Costume in Performance by : Donatella Barbieri

Download or read book Costume in Performance written by Donatella Barbieri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the 'fashion plays' to contemporary Shakespeare, marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume's ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance. With a contribution by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK

Mathematics and the Body

Author : Elizabeth de Freitas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039487
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mathematics and the Body by : Elizabeth de Freitas

Download or read book Mathematics and the Body written by Elizabeth de Freitas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the landscape of research in mathematics education by analyzing how the body influences mathematical thinking.

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Author : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867067
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon by : Leonard Lawlor

Download or read book The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon written by Leonard Lawlor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.