Manning, Erin,

Politics of touch : sense, movement, sovereignty / Erin Manning. - xxiii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.

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 -- Eventfully 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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Behaviorism (Political science)
Touch--Political aspects
Sex role--Political aspects
Tango (Dance)--Social aspects

JA74.5 / .M357 2007

320.019