African Somaesthetics
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African Somaesthetics Cultures Feminisms Politics
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-11-23
African Somaesthetics Cultures Feminisms Politics written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
In African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics, Catherine F. Botha brings together original research on the body in African cultures, interrogating the possible contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa.
Embodiment And The Arts Views From South Africa
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Author : Jenni Lauwrens
language : en
Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press
Release Date : 2022-11-21
Embodiment And The Arts Views From South Africa written by Jenni Lauwrens and has been published by Pretoria University Law Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-21 with Law categories.
About the publication Embodiment and the Arts: Views from South Africa presents a diversity of views on the nature and status of the body in relation to acting, advertisements, designs, films, installations, music, photographs, performance, typography, and video works. Applying the methodologies of phenomenology, hermeneutic phenomenology, embodied perception, ecological psychology, and sense-based research, the authors place the body at the centre of their analyses. The cornerstone of the research presented here is the view that aesthetic experience is active and engaged rather than passive and disinterested. This novel volume offers a rich and diverse range of applications of the paradigm of embodiment to the arts in South Africa. Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments Notes on contributors PART 1 Conceptualising embodiment and the arts Chapter 1 Embodiment and the arts in context Jenni Lauwrens 1 Plotting a course 2 Embodiment 3 Aesthetic embodiment 4 The sensorium 5 Too deep for words? 6 Overview of chapters Chapter 2 Enactive cognition in improvising musical ensembles: A South African perspective Marc Duby 1 Introduction 2 The promise of embodied cognition 3 4E cognition: A brief overview 4 Musicking and enactive cognition 5 Conclusion PART 2: Sensory scholarship Chapter 3 Sight/site-specific recording: Embodiment and absence Marc Röntsch 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Embodiment and artistic research 4 Jazz ensemble playing 5 Blinding 6 On absence 7 Conclusion Chapter 4 The art of touch in remote online environments Jenni Lauwrens 1 Introduction 2 The significance and boundaries of touch 3 Out of touch 4 Holding hands over the internet: Telepresence, co-presence and the promise of digital touch 5 Chasing the Holy Grail of touch 6 Haptic visuality and the memory of touch 7 Conclusion Chapter 5 Outer space and sensory deprivation (or why is outer space so bland?) Amanda du Preez 1 Introduction 2 On blandness 3 What does outer space smell, taste and look like? 4 Falling down or falling up? 5 Gravity mimicked 6 Unfolding within the fourfold 7 Conclusion Chapter 6 The typographic sensorium: A cross-modal reading of letterforms Kyle Rath 1 Introduction: Function(s) of type 2 Design and the typographic sensorium 2.1 Sight: Type as image 2.2 Touch: Type as haptic and kinaesthetic 2.3 Sound: Type as wave-form 2.4 Olfaction: Type as scent and taste 3 Conclusion PART 3: Material presence Chapter 7 A haptic and humanising reading of the subjects of studio portraits and asylum photography in colonial South Africa Rory du Plessis 1 Introduction 2 The Black Photo Album 3 Interpreting photographs from the Orange Free State Asylum, c 1900 3.1 First encounter 3.2 Second encounter 4 Conclusion Chapter 8 Athi-Patra Ruga’s politics of disorientation: Queer(y)ing threads Adéle Adendorff 1 Introduction 2 Spinning tales and fashioning avatars 3 The politics of disorientation 3.1 Queer(y)ing phenomenology 3.2 Miss Congo and the table in the drawing-room 4 Casting off: Tying up loose threads Chapter 9 Seeing an image at the University of Pretoria’s Africana collection in context Sikho Siyotula 1 Introduction 2 The grass at the University of Pretoria’s gates 3 The world visualised in Ethnic map of Southern Africa 4 Visualising the Nguni estate or Shakan period 5 Visualising the Mapungubwe and Zimbabwe estate 6 Conclusion PART 4: Embodied performance and composition Chapter 10 Navigating dissonance: Bodymind and character congruency in acting Èmil Haarhoff, Marth Munro and Marié-Heleen Coetzee 1 Introduction 2 Bodymind and embodiment 3 Acting as an embodied craft 4 Actor-character dissonance and heightened awareness 5 Navigating actor-character dissonance 5.1 Choice and reappraisal 5.2 Actively applying heightened bodymind awareness 6 Conclusion Chapter 11 Advocating the importance of nonverbal communication in multimodal actor training Elri Wium and Janine Lewis 1 Introduction 2 Case control study 3 Nonverbal communication as an analysis model 4 Discussion of syncretic behavioural communication design 5 Data collection and analysis through a mixed-methods approach 5.1 Observation study 5.2 Analysis of habitual characterisation (coded narrative recordings) 5.3 Assessing the semi-structured interviews 6 Conclusion Chapter 12 Embodied composition ontologies, process and technology: Gesture heuristics and creative potential in music Miles Warrington 1 Introduction 2 Creative spaces 3 Compositional approaches, processes and models 3.1 Gesture schemas and embodiment of sound 3.2 Gesture signification 3.3 Problem solving and gesture models 3.4 Hyperinstruments 4 Conclusion Index
Bodies In The Streets The Somaesthetics Of City Life
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-08-12
Bodies In The Streets The Somaesthetics Of City Life written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-12 with Philosophy categories.
Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city streets.
Body Consciousness
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Author : Richard Shusterman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-07
Body Consciousness written by Richard Shusterman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-07 with Philosophy categories.
Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one's knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticised as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption. In Body Consciousness, Richard Shusterman refutes such charges by engaging the most influential twentieth-century somatic philosophers and incorporating insights from both Western and Asian disciplines of body-mind awareness. Rather than rehashing intractable ontological debates on the mind-body relation, Shusterman reorients study of this crucial nexus towards a more fruitful, pragmatic direction that reinforces important but neglected connections between philosophy of mind, ethics, politics, and the pervasive aesthetic dimensions of everyday life.
Shusterman S Somaesthetics
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Shusterman S Somaesthetics written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
Shusterman’s Somaesthetics is a wide-ranging collection of penetrating essays by twelve scholars examining in rich detail the many dimensions of philosopher Richard Shusterman’s pragmatism and somaesthetics, complemented by his own chapter of responses to these scholars
Aesthetic Experience And Somaesthetics
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Author : Richard Shusterman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-02-12
Aesthetic Experience And Somaesthetics written by Richard Shusterman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
This essay collection explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. After examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience, the essays apply somaesthetic theory to the diverse fine arts and the art of living.
Ars Erotica
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Author : Richard Shusterman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Ars Erotica written by Richard Shusterman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Philosophy categories.
Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love.
Thinking Through The Body
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Author : Richard Shusterman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-17
Thinking Through The Body written by Richard Shusterman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with Education categories.
A richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, with fourteen essays by the originator of the field.
Somaesthetics And Sport
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-04-04
Somaesthetics And Sport written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-04 with Philosophy categories.
The contributors to Somaesthetics and Sport explore our embodied experiences of watching and playing sport, including sport’s beauty; the place of exercise in our sense of living a good life; and how we cope with pain and suffering.
Knowing Bodies Moving Minds
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Author : Liora Bresler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-11
Knowing Bodies Moving Minds written by Liora Bresler and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Education categories.
This book aims to define new theoretical, practical, and methodological directions in educational research centered on the role of the body in teaching and learning. Based on our phenomenological experience of the world, it draws on perspectives from arts-education and aesthetics, as well as curriculum theory, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. These are arenas with a rich untapped cache of experience and inquiry that can be applied to the notions of schooling, teaching and learning. The book provides examples of state-of-the-art, empirical research on the body in a variety of educational settings. Diverse art forms, curricular settings, educational levels, and cultural traditions are selected to demonstrate the complexity and richness of embodied knowledge as they are manifested through institutional structures, disciplines, and specific practices.