Subject Matter
The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown
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- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2023
Summary
Subject Matter offers a bold counterpoint to prevalent conceptions of habit characterized by bodily fluidity and ease, as the stabilizing foundation of an emerging subjectivity, or, more negatively, as a numbing and deadening force. Instead of facilitating the coordination of action with goal and self with environment, habit appears here as a disruptively recursive operation with extreme ontological implications that are often more quotidian than exceptional. Vinegar theorizes habit’s more pe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546362 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262546361 |
| Author: | Aron Vinegar |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
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Aron Vinegar
Aron Vinegar is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Oslo. He writes and teaches at the intersection of art, architecture, visual studies, aesthetics, and philosophy.
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