Touch
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Touch

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eBook - ePub

Touch

About this book

Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of?being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch the most essential of all senses. This volume in the Law and the Senses series attempts to illuminate and reconsider the complex and interflowing relations and contradictions between the tactful intrusion of the law and the untactful movement of touch. Compelling contributors from arts, literature and social science disciplines alongside artist presentations explore touch's boundaries and formal and informal 'laws' of the senses. Each contribution unveils a multi-faceted new dimension to the force of touch, its ability to form, deform and reform what it touches. In unique ways, each of the several contributions to this volume recognises the trans-corporeality of touch to traverse the boundaries on the body and entangle other bodies and spaces, thus challenging the very notion of corporeal integrity and human being.

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Yes, you can access Touch by Andrea Pavoni, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Danilo Mandic in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Art General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of Westminster Press
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781912656363
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Index

#MeToo 229
A
able-bodiedness 165
aesthetic excess 105, 115
affection 125–127
affect theory 124
Alaimo, Stacy 91
American Psychiatric Association (APA) 131
animal life 105
animal, theory of the 105–106
Anzieu, Didier 29, 30, 34, 36–41, 44, 48, 51–54, 56, 59, 69, 211
apoptosis 160
Aragon, Louis 62
Aristotle 1, 8–9, 11–12, 16, 32–33, 71
artistic representation 26
Art of Concrete: Building the South Bank Arts Centre, The 237
art, theory of 105
Aspiegrrl 153
Auschwitz mumber tattoos 196, 212–226
appropriation of 226–228
babies tattooed 221–222
performative quality 217–218, 223
showing of 223–226
as symbols of survival and hope 219–221
Auschwitz survivors 212, 224, 226
Auschwitz (TV series) 227–228
Australia 98, 99
authorship a...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Touching and Not Touching: The Indirections of Desire
  7. A Touching ‘Contract’
  8. Depression, Shock and Stimulation: Regimes of Touch in the Field of Psychiatry
  9. Not at a Distance: On Touch, Synaesthesia and Other Ways of Knowing
  10. The Illicit Touch: Theorising Narratives of Abused Human Skin
  11. Surface/Touch
  12. Remains of a Fall
  13. The Contributors
  14. Editors
  15. Index