Politics of Touch
Politics of Touch Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. In this groundbreaking work, Erin Manning reconsiders how new politics can arise that…
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Politics of Touch
Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. In this groundbreaking work, Erin Manning reconsiders how new politics can arise that challenge the national body politic.In Politics of Touch, Manning develops a new way to conceive the role of the senses, and of touch in particular. Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics of Touch explores the ways in which sensing bodies continually run up against existing political structures.
Specifically considering tango-a tactile, rhythmic, and improvisational dance- she foregrounds movement as the sensing body's intervention into the political. Exploring concepts of violence, gender, sexuality, security, democracy, and identity, she traces the ways in which touch informs and reforms the body. With a fresh vision and an original