Thought in the act: Passages in the ecology of experience
Thought in the act: Passages in the ecology of experience
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行动中的思考:体验生态中的段落
DOI:
10.1057/cpt.2014.62
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
D. Mills
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作者:
D. Mills
This book feels very timely. After a thrust of writing in political theory looking at embodied practices and their significance for our lives together in communities, such as Carrie Noland, s Agency and Embodiment and Manning, s own Politics of Touch, and perhaps most significantly Jane Bennett, s Vibrant Matter and Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, s New Materialisms, we are now presented with this book which strives to explore creative practices as a form of thinking. Its underlying goal is a very ambitious one, to ‘open philosophy to the outside, as it argues that ‘every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act.,(vii). Its mission then is not to philosophize about artistic action as the underlying argument is that artistic action is in and of itself already a form of thought. Thus the aim becomes significant both in method and in argument; the authors do not analyse practices; they try to understand them from within, to unravel their logic and unfold their intricacies. This book focuses on creating a relational ecology in more than one way. It, in its own unique mode of writing, allows the reader to partake in one such ecology, in a mode of being in which different discourses can live together without the need to prioritize one over the other; a life in which rationality or understanding take manifold meanings, and difference, in the deepest meaning of the phrase, is celebrated.The book is divided into two parts: the first, Passages, provides readings of practices. The first chapter entitled neurodiversity is a reading of the experience of perception, focusing on the experience of perception of autistic people, as opposed to neuroreductionism. Massumi and Manning want us to return to the experience of a whole moment bringing the experience of perception back into relational terms. The next chapter looks at a possible dialogue between mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the work of architects and artists Arkawa and Gins. We have a verbal travel through the experience of receiving their work, experiencing their re-configuration of spaces and intervention into the physicality of our lives. The next two chapters are devoted to readings of two artists: influential