[csaa-forum] Book launch - Unimaginable Bodies

[Gregory Noble]

Don't miss this!
 
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UNIMAGINABLE BODIES: Intellectual Disability, Performance and Becomings
by Anna Hickey-Moody
Published by: Sense Publications

To be launched by Gerard Goggin
with Professor Meaghan Morris and A/Prof Andrew Murphie

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: Free
Friday September 25th, 6pm @ Gleebooks. Wine and snacks will be provided.


RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place:
http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp?p=events/launches4_htm <http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp?p=events/launches4_htm> 

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Unimaginable Bodies radically resituates academic discussions of
intellectual disability. Through building relationships between philosophy,
cultural studies and communities of integrated dance theatre practice, Anna
Hickey-Moody argues that dance theatre devised with and performed by young
people with and without intellectual disability, can reframe the ways in
which bodies with intellectual disability are known.

Taking up the writings of Spinoza and Deleuze and Guattari, Hickey-Moody
critiques aspects of medical discourses of intellectual disability, arguing
that Cartesian methods for thinking about the body are recreated within
these discourses. Further, she shows that Cartesian ways of conceiving
corporeality can be traced through select studies of the social construction
of intellectual disability. The argument for theorising corporeality and
embodied knowledge that Hickey-Moody constructs is a philosophical
interpretation of the processes of knowledge production and subjectification
that occur in integrated dance theatre. This book is essential reading for
those interested in theories of embodiment, disability studies and dance.

Dr. Anna Hickey-Moody is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural
Studies at the University of Sydney. She is co-author of Masculinity beyond
the Metropolis (Palgrave) and co-editor of Deleuzian Encounters (Palgrave).