Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation

Name: Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation
Brand: Sage Publications Ltd
SKU: 9781446266854
Price: 58.49 EUR
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By (author): Lisa Blackman

In this unique contribution, Blackman focuses upon the affective capacities of bodies, human and non-human as well as addressing the challenges of the affective turn within the social sciences. Fresh and convincing, this book uncovers the paradoxes and tensions in work in affect studies by focusing on practices and experiences, including voice hearing, suggestion, hypnosis, telepathy, the placebo effect, rhythm and related phenomena. Questioning the traditional idea of mind over matter, as well as discussing the danger of setting up a false distinction between the two, this book makes for an invaluable addition within cultural theory and the recent turn to affect.

In a powerful and engaging matter, Blackman discusses the immaterial body across the neurosciences, physiology, media and cultural studies, body studies, artwork, performance, psychology and psychoanalysis. Interdisciplinary in its core, this book is a must for everyone seeking a dynamic and thought provoking analysis of culture and communication today.

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Weight: 730g
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 05 Sep 2012
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781446266854

About Lisa Blackman

Lisa Blackman is a Reader in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London. She works at the intersection of body studies and media and cultural studies. She is the editor of the journal Body & Society and a co-editor of Subjectivity. Book include Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies (Palgrave 2001 with Valerie Walkerdine); Hearing Voices: Embodiment and Experience (Free Association Books 2001); The Body: The Key Concepts (Berg 2008). She teaches courses which span critical media psychology affect studies embodiment and body studies and experimentation in the context of art/science. She is particularly interested in phenomena which have puzzled scientists artists literary writers and the popular imagination for centuries including automatic writing voice hearing suggestion telepathy and automatism.