Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture
This highly original book brilliantly rethinks one of the crucial blind spots of poststructuralist theory — the evasiveness about, or failure to resolve, issues of agency.Agency and Embodimentis an extremely important and intelligently articulated intervention into the profound dilemmas we face in understanding how to navigate the complexities of contemporary cultural landscapes. (Amelia Jones, Professor and Pilkington Chair in the History of Art, University of Manchester)Carrie Noland challenges Michel Foucault's metaphor of bodily inscription by proposing gesture as scriptural— having the characteristics of writing.Agency and Embodimentconstitutes a highly original contribution to thinking on the body, power, and culture across fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective. (Mark Franko, Professor of Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz)