Combining the notions of performativity and embodiment, this book situates the body in the realm of processes, movement, and poiesis, seeking to generate alternative configurations to mind–body dualism. Focused on language, literature, dance, affect, gender, sport, and disability, the contributions to this volume emphasize doing over being: the body does and is done; it is engaged in a movement of co-constitution with the world. It is in doing that bodies produce knowledge and shared or contested social meaning. Such a relational process is best described through the notion of choreographies — patterns of movement which capture the embodied dynamic of passivity and activity, design and improvisation, inner and outer states, and which fittingly describe the modalities through which social norms discipline bodies, or are challenged by them.
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Cultural Inquiry, 39
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X
Contents
Language and Literature
- Language as Embodied Practice: Notes on Performative Processes of Subjectification with Reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, and Judith ButlerLucilla Guidi
- Performing the Living Present: Clarice Lispector’s Água VivaAlberica Bazzoni
- Performing and Embodying Authorship: Case Studies from Italian Women’s Autobiographical WritingsUrsula Fanning
Dance
- Affective ChoreographiesSusan Kozel
- ‘Full Drop into the Body’: A Conversation and Public DiscussionMargrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Susan Kozel
- Dancing Tango: The Realm of AppearancesDorothea Olkowski