Title: Non-representational theory : space, politics, affect /
Authors: Thrift, N. J.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Social sciences Philosophy; Social theory.; Space and time.; Human geography.
Abstract: An introduction to the non-representational theories which are currently widely dispersed within social sciences and the humanities, this text provides a new outlook to this wide-ranging field.
Contents: Life, but not as we know it -- Re-inventing invention : new tendencies in capitalist commodification -- Still life in nearly present time : the object of nature -- Driving and the city -- Movement-space : the changing domain of thinking resulting from the development of new kinds of spatial awareness -- Afterwords -- From born to made : technology, biology, and space -- Spatialities of feeling -- But malice aforethought -- Turbulent passions : towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance.