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Collective Embodiment and Communal Feeling : = A Critical Somatics Approach to Performance for Social Change.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Collective Embodiment and Communal Feeling :/
Reminder of title:	A Critical Somatics Approach to Performance for Social Change.
Author:	Dilliplane, Daniel Isaac.
Description:	1 online resource (247 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379554538

Collective Embodiment and Communal Feeling : = A Critical Somatics Approach to Performance for Social Change.
Dilliplane, Daniel Isaac.

Collective Embodiment and Communal Feeling :A Critical Somatics Approach to Performance for Social Change. - 1 online resource (247 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

"Collective Embodiment and Communal Feeling: A Critical Somatics Approach to Performance for Social Change" argues for a novel approach to performance for social change that focuses on the sensory and somatic dimensions of collectivity as the basis for countering the atomizing politics of neoliberalism. It proposes a critical somatics approach to the deconstruction and reconfiguration of participants' embodied subjectivities, emphasizing the cultivation of conditions that facilitate experiences of collective embodiment and affective interdependence. Whether in the kinesthetic awareness of bodies dancing together, the situational or proprioceptive awareness of a collective engaged in creative disruption, or the physical contact of activists' clasped arms forming a human chain in protest, these conditions require multisensory engagement, improvisational coordination, and shared feeling. Based on ethnographic accounts of the phenomenological experience of collective embodiment, I argue that such experiences enact-rather than merely argue for-forms of collectivity through their operation on the level of the body. This approach to performance for social change builds on the experience of practitioners and artist-activists in an effort to preserve the core contributions of existing techniques while seeking avenues to overcome their susceptibility to the influence of increasingly ubiquitous neoliberal frameworks. Opening with a consideration of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed as a touchstone example, I argue that the technique's cognitive approach to social change and its emphasis on discursive techniques contribute to the manner in which it individualizes responsibility for combating systemic oppression. Turning to Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter's InterPlay as an example of an affective approach to performance for social change, I critique its practitioners' culture of individualism, but identify the critical potential of its recognition of collective embodiment. Extending this analysis to protest and direct action, I explore the existential prefiguration of communities of care and the cultivation of communal feeling, an affective and collective form of embodied cognition. After offering a series of activities designed to create the conditions for experiences of collective embodiment and develop the affective bonds of communal feeling, I close with a consideration of the broader implications of positioning speculative theory at the forefront of movements' political practice.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379554538Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Communication.
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Critical somaticsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

Collective Embodiment and Communal Feeling : = A Critical Somatics Approach to Performance for Social Change.
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