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9781917251013

The Ancient Device

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  • ISBN13:

    9781917251013

  • ISBN10:

    1917251017

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2024-09-20
  • Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd

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Summary

''A novel about the ‘ fiction of the self’ and performance as a device. Develops an idea of ‘ myth-work’ . Shows how narrative and imaginary landscapes/figures can work as a form of repair.

Author Biography

Professor Simon O’ Sullivan teaches at Goldsmiths College, Univ of London. He is a theorist and artist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and philosophy. He has published widely in in these areas, often in relation to Deleuze and Guattari and, more recently in relation to fictioning and myth-work. His most recent monographs are From Magic and Myth-Work to Care and Repair (2024) and (written with David Burrows) Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy (2019).

Table of Contents

Trusting the body, Notes on practice, Notes on reading, A conversation, I Disrupting the human, 1. Moving without the head on top, 2. Moving without standing upright, 3. Moving without the hands, 4. Moving from the pelvis, 5. Moving from the spine, 6. Moving the face, 7. Disrupting the human shape, 8. Questioning with the body, 9. Finding your edge, 10. Not slow or fast, in time, 12. Demystifying agency, II Being environment, 12. Landing, 13. Softening boundaries, 14. Moving in landscape, 15. Tuning to nature’ s rhythm, 16. Shapeshifting frames, 17. Un-shaping with environment, 18. Becoming less human, 19. Moving with human design, 20. Being with, 21. Embracing impermanence, A feral human, Acknowledgments, About the Author

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