Politics of touch : sense, movement, sovereignty /

Manning, Erin.

Politics of touch : sense, movement, sovereignty / Erin Manning. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - xxiii, 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.

Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.

0816648441 (alk. paper) 9780816648443 (alk. paper) 081664845X (pb : alk. paper) 9780816648450 (pb : alk. paper)

2006016781

GBA674917 bnb

013542044 Uk


Behaviorism (Political science)
Touch--Political aspects.
Sex role--Political aspects.
Tango (Dance)--Social aspects.

JA74.5 / .M283p 2007

320.01/9