{"product_id":"moving-without-a-body-digital-philosophy-and-choreographic-thoughts-paperback","title":"Moving without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStamatia Portanova\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radically empirical exploration of movement and technology and the transformations of choreography in a digital realm.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDigital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In \u003ci\u003eMoving without a Body\u003c\/i\u003e, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does not amount to a technical assessment of software's capacity to record motion but requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiscussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution, including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers these technologies and dances as ways to think--rather than just perform or perceive--movement. She distinguishes the choreographic thought from the performance: a body performs a movement, and a mind thinks or choreographs a dance. Similarly, she sees the move from analog to digital as a shift in conception rather than simply in technical realization. Analyzing choreographic technologies for their capacity to redesign the way movement is thought, \u003ci\u003eMoving without a Body\u003c\/i\u003e offers an ambitiously conceived reflection on the ontological implications of the encounter between movement and technological systems.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStamatia Portanova is Research Fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli \"L'Orientale\" (Naples) and the author of \u003ci\u003eMoving without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). She has published articles in \u003ci\u003eAI \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBody \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComputational Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpace and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFibreculture Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAngelaki\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701005193312,"sku":"9780262551175","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/moving-without-a-body-digital-philosophy-and-choreographic-thoughts-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}