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Politics of touch : sense, movement, sovereignty / Erin Manning.

Author/creator Manning, Erin
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxxiii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.
LCCN 2006016781
ISBN0816648441 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780816648443 (alk. paper)
ISBN081664845X (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816648450 (pb : alk. paper)

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