Davide Panagia

The Political Life of Sensation

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the role of perceptual experience on notions of political subjectivity--from the piazza as a site for political speech to the Slow Food movement's focus on the political ramifications of taste.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344797
• ISBN-10: 0822344793
• Artikelnr.: 25942126

Autorenporträt

Davide Panagia

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments: Grazie xiii
Prologue: Narratocracy and the Contours of Political Life 1
1. From Nomos to Nomad: Kant, Deleuze, and Rancière on Sensation 21
2. The Piazza, the Edicola, and the Noise of the Utterance 45
3. Machiavelli's Theory of Sensation and Florence's Vita Festiva 74
4. The Viewing Subject: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring 96
5. "You're Eating Too Fast!" Slow Food's Ethos of Convivium 123
Epilogue: "The Photograph's Tell It All": On an Ethics of Appearance 149
Notes 155
Bibliography 189
Index 201