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Pages: 236
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a P
Thought in the Act
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Pages: 182
Authors: Erin Manning
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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“Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a
Always More Than One
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Erin Manning
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perce
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In an epoch driven by hyper-consumption and marvelously destructive futility, and in the context of a hegemonic utilitarianism where one goes to university to w
The Perfect Mango
Language: en
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Authors: Erin Manning
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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In 1994, at the age of twenty-five, when the "terrible brokenness that comes with sexual assault" was folded deep within her body and thoughts of suicide were a