Putting the work of Henri Lefebvre, William James, and John Dewey in conversation with dance theorists, Derek P. McCormack reflects on how bodies both move in and generate affective spaces.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Affective Spaces for Moving Bodies
1. Transitions: For Experimenting (with) Experience
2. Rhythmic Bodies and Affective Atmospheres
3. Diagramming Refrains: A Chapter with an Interest in Rhythm
4. Ecologies of Therapeutic Practice
5. Commentating. Semiconducting Affective Atmospheres
6. Moving Images for Moving Bodies
7. Choreographing Lived Abstractions
8. Promising Participation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Derek P. McCormack is University Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Mansfield College.
"Derek P. McCormack is interested in the lines of influence that bodies trace out and how they produce scaffoldings and architectures which perform different possibilities differently. Such an art of experiment has rarely been articulated so clearly or so forcefully as in this book and it provides an agenda for a different way of doing geography, as movement but also trance, as prose but also rhyme, as maps that morph and dissimulate but also provide guidelines. The book is rich in the kind of cloudy inspiration that makes you want to think more about more. Brilliant." - Nigel Thrift, coauthor of Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left "In this precise, lyrical, inventive, and rigorous book, Derek P. McCormack rethinks how affective spaces are generated by and for moving bodies, creating new conceptions of spaces and our relationship to them. Clear and generative, Refrains for Moving Bodies is a significant contribution to cultural geography, philosophy, dance, and performance studies." - Erin Manning, author of Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance
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