Erin Manning's Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance PDF

By Erin Manning

ISBN-10: 0822353334

ISBN-13: 9780822353331

ISBN-10: 0822353342

ISBN-13: 9780822353348

In Always greater than One, the thinker, visible artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept that of the "more than human" within the context of circulation, belief, and event. operating from Whitehead's technique philosophy and Simondon's concept of individuation, she extends the techniques of circulate and relation constructed in her previous paintings towards the idea of "choreographic thinking." the following, she makes use of choreographic considering to discover a method of conception ahead of the settling of expertise into confirmed different types. Manning connects this to the idea that of "autistic perception," defined by means of autistics because the understanding of a relational box sooner than the so-called neurotypical tendency to "chunk" event into predetermined matters and gadgets. Autistics clarify that, instead of instantly distinguishing objects—such as chairs and tables and humans—from each other on getting into a given atmosphere, they adventure the surroundings as steadily taking shape. Manning continues that this mode of understanding underlies all conception. What we understand isn't first a topic or an item, yet an ecology. From this vantage element, she proposes that we examine an ecological politics the place move and relation take priority over predefined different types, comparable to the neurotypical and the neurodiverse, or the human and the nonhuman. What wouldn't it suggest to embody an ecological politics of collective individuation?

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