Politics of touch [electronic resource] : sense, movement, sovereignty / Erin Manning.
By: Manning, Erin.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007Description: xxiii, 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Behaviorism (Political science) | Touch -- Political aspects | Sex role -- Political aspects | Tango (Dance) -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 320.01/9 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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