{"product_id":"nonrepresentational-theory-9780415393218","title":"NonRepresentational Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eintroduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprovides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and humanities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebegins the task of constructing a different kind of political genre. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking and comprehensive introduction to this key topic, Thrift's outstanding work brings together further writings from a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. This noteworthy book makes a significant contribution to the literature in this area and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This is a richly textured book, alert to the criticisms intellectualists will bring against it and encouraging us to broaden the horizons in which we think, act and combine.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eWilliam E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Life, but not as we Know it \u003cstrong\u003ePart 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2. Re-Inventing Invention: New Tendencies in Capitalist Commodification 3. Still Life in Nearly Present Time: The Object of Nature 4. Driving and the City 5. Movement-Space: The Changing Domain of Thinking Resulting from the Development of New Kinds of Spatial Awareness \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6. Afterwords \u003cstrong\u003ePart Three:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7. From Born to Made: Technology, Biology, and Space 8. Spatialities of Feeling 9. But Malice Aforethought 10. Turbulent Passions: Towards an Understanding of the Affective Spaces of Political Performance\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018141172055,"sku":"9780415393218","price":43.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415393218.jpg?v=1750775772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nonrepresentational-theory-9780415393218","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}