A Philosophy of Practising: With Deleuze's Difference and Repetition - Hardcover

Pont, Antonia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474490468 ISBN 13: 9781474490467

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

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Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, how it fosters transformation, and gives us access to deep memory and rest, while also cultivating stability and responsiveness in the present. Practising, in other words, gives us three kinds of time instead of one. Practising involves an interweaving of differences expressing themselves among intentional repetitions. By engaging in practising, we open times other than our habitual presents, we slip the binds of identity and we thin out our relation with behaviours that shut out the future. Whether you practise already, are curious about embarking, or are a reader of Deleuze, this book – for makers, thinkers, lovers and activists – is a rigorous account of why practising is hard to say, why it works and why it matters.

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Antonia Pont is Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction and essays as well as theoretical work across writing, literature and the creative arts. Her research is concerned with time, transformation, ethical capacity, thought, movement and joy. She is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (2009- ), where she continues to practise, teach and lead retreats. Her collection of poetry You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel was published in 2019 with Rabbit Poets Series and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award (2020). She is co-author of Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

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‘A remarkable book that asks an unexpected question: what is a practice, what does it mean to practice something, to be a practitioner? Pont’s provocative claim is that a practice isn’t about getting something done or preparing for a future performance. It is a laboratory for the production of a rich, textured, impossibly complex nothing.’Joe Hughes, The University of MelbourneProvides a thorough account of ‘practising’, its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with the Deleuze of Difference and RepetitionAntonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, how it fosters transformation, and gives us access to deep memory and rest, while also cultivating stability and responsiveness in the present. Practising, in other words, gives us three kinds of time instead of one.Practising involves an interweaving of differences expressing themselves among intentional repetitions. By engaging in practising, we open times other than our habitual presents, we slip the binds of identity and we thin out our relation with behaviours that shut out the future.Whether you practise already, are curious about embarking, or are a reader of Deleuze, this book – for makers, thinkers, lovers and activists – is a rigorous account of why practising is hard to say, why it works and why it matters.Antonia Pont is Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia.Cover images: Drip poem 1, 2, 3, 2020, 21 x 29.7 cm, Justin Gosker [delete 1 or 2 as appropriate]Cover design: riverdesignbooks.comISBN 978-1-4744-9046-7Barcode

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474490468
• ISBN 13: 9781474490467
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
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