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Overview
This 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:
A 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 is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates in the fields of social theory, sociology, geography, anthropology and cultural studies.
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Nigel Thrift, Professor at the University of Warwick, is also Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited more than 35 books and over 200 journal articles. His research includes work on international finance, new forms of capitalism, cities, social and cultural theory, and the history of time
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Life, but not as we know it 1
Part I 27
Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification 29
Still life in nearly present time: the object of nature 56
Driving in the city 75
Movement-space: the changing domain of thinking resulting from the development of new kinds of spatial awareness 89
Part II 107
Afterwords 109
Part III 151
From born to made: technology, biology, and space 153
Spatialities of feeling 171
But malice aforethought 198
Turbulent passions: towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance 220
Notes 255
Bibliography 279
Index 314