Moving Without a Body Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts

Name: Moving Without a Body Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts
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ISBN: 9780262018920

ISBN-10: 0262018926

ISBN-13: 9780262018920

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stamatia Portanova

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Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulatingmovement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. InMoving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when thephysicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing onthe radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does notamount to a technical assessment of software's capacity to record motion but requires aphilosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become. Discussing the development ofdifferent audiovisual tools and the shift from analog to digital, she…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/29/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Stamatia Portanova is an independent scholar.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Thinking Choreography Digitally


Technologies as Ideas


Philosophies as Methods


Choreographies as Examples



Imag(in)ing the Dance: Choreo-nexus


Digital Affectivity …


… or Digital Definition?



To Perceive Is to Abstract


Diagram


Knowledge


Causal Nexus


Presentational Nexus


Digital Nexus



Digital Abstractions: The Intuitive Logic of the Cut


Digital Cut


Digi-strain


Di-fractals


The Image, between Sensation and Imagination



Remembering the Dance: Mov-objects


What a Dancing Body Can Do (Desubjectifying the Motion)


What a Technology Can Really Do (Reobjectifying the Potential)



Can Objects Be Preserved?


Singularities



Can Objects Change?


Calculus


Topology


Mereotopology



Can Objects Be Processes?


Generative


Parametric


The New


Rationally Remembering



Thinking the Dance: Compu-sitions


Numbering Numbers



Numbered Dancers and Software Ballet


The Abstractness of Relation


The Rhythm of Counting


The Detachment of Technology



When Memory Becomes Creation


Algorithmic Connections


Algorithmic Complexity


Binary Alternative


A Germ of Conclusion: In Abstraction


Notes


Index