Agency and embodiment performing gestures/producing culture /

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Main Author: Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • The "structuring" body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques
  • Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement
  • Inscription and embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the body as tool
  • Inscription as performance: Henri Michaux and the writing body
  • The gestural performative: locating agency in the work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon
  • Conclusion: illegible graffiti.