Reading circle: Body, embodiment and corporeality

Description

Learning outcomes: The reading circle is a reading seminar that arises from the doctoral researchers' own aims, starting points and self-set goals and interests. Participants propose and agree on a theme/topic, assemble a group of a minimum of 3 attendants, and agree with the responsible teachers. The extent of the study attainment will be agreed with the responsible teachers and the study planners will help with the space booking. Content: A reading circle viewing the terminology and theories around body, embodiment and corporeality, including viewpoints of critical somatics and critical embodiment theories especially from feminist and decolonial perspectives. Learning material: Suggested readings: - Grosz, Elizabeth. 2012. ‘Deleuze, Ruyer and Becoming-Brain: The Music of Life’s Temporality’. Parrhesia 15:1–13. - Trappes, Rose. 2019. ‘Evaluating Elizabeth Grosz’s Biological Turn’. Hypatia 34 (4): 736–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12487. - Drury, Lindsey. 2022. ‘What’s in a Name? Somatics and the Historical Revisionism of Thomas Hanna’. Dance Research Journal 54 (1): 6–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767722000043. - Holmes, Sarah W. 2023. ‘Racialized Bodily Grammar: A Case Study of White Fragility in the Embodied Discourse of Somatic Practice’. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices 15 (2): 193–211. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00114_1. - Spatz, Ben. 2019. ‘Notes for Decolonizing Embodiment’. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 33 (2): 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1353/dtc.2019.0001. - Braidotti, Rosi. 2003. ‘Becoming Woman: Or Sexual Difference Revisited’. Theory, Culture & Society 20 (3): 43–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764030203004. - Gil, Jose’. 2006. ‘Paradoxical Body’. TDR: Drama Review 50 (4): 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.21. - Esim. Price, Margaret. 2015. ‘The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain’. Hypatia 30 (1): 268–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12127. - Alaimo. Stacy. 2010. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press + De Vos, Ruby. 2023. ‘Protection and Reflection: The Ambiguities of Trans-Corporeality in Thilde Jensen’s “The Canaries” (2013)’. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 30 (3): 596–615. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isab034. - Neimanis, Astrida. 2017. Bodies of water: Posthuman feminist phenomenology. Bloomsbury Academic. - Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. 1981. ‘Thinking in Movement’. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 39 (4): 399–407. https://doi.org/10.2307/430239. - Manning, Erin and Brian Massumi. 2014. Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (e.g. introduction) - Manning, Erin. 2013. Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. - Manning, Erin, "Wondering the World Directly – or, How Movement Outruns the Subject." Body & Society 20, no. 3-4 (2014-09-01): 162-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14546357. - Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. 2014. ‘Thinking in Movement: Response to Erin Manning’. Body & Society 20 (3–4): 198–207. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14547395. (in response to previous article by Manning) Participants are invited to suggest further readings. The articles are chosen jointly in the first session. Further information: Students may attend one or more reading circles.