Stillness in a mobile world
By: edited by David Bissell and Gillian Fuller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415572620; 9780203855898
Description: This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement.With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the diversity of this collection illuminates the multiplicity of ontological and epistemological registers through which stillness moves: from human geography to media studies, cultural theory to fine arts. With the help of luminaries such as Deleuze, Bergson, Barthes and Beckett, this book interweaves cutting-edge theoretical insight with empirical illustrations which examine and traverse a multitude of practices, spaces and events. In an era where stasis, slowness and passivity are often held to be detrimental, this collection puts forward a new set of political and ethical concerns which help us to come to terms with, understand, and account for (im)mobile life.
Table of contents: title: Stillness unbound / by David Bissell and Gillian Fuller; title: Shadow's forces/forces' shadows / by Andrew Murphie; title: Airportals : the functional significance of stillness in the junkspace of airports / by Ross Harley; title: Still waiting, still moving : on labour, logistics and maritime industries / by Brett Nielson and Ned Rossiter; title: The orchestration of feeling : stillness, spirituality and places of retreat / by David Conradson; title: Performing stillness : community in waiting / by Emma Cocker; title: The productivity of stillness : composure and the scholarly habitus / by Megan Watkins and Greg Noble; title: The private life of an air raid : mobility, stillness, affect / by Peter Adey; title: Moving encounters : the affective mobilities of photography / by Debbie Lisle; title: Stillness re-animated : experiencing body worlds and the work of art / by Sebastian Abrahamsson; title: The singularity of the 'still' : 'never suspend the question' / by J-D Dewsbury; title: Turbulent stillness : the politics of uncertainty and the undocumented migrant / by Craig Martin; title: The broken thread : on being still / by Paul Harrison.