Carnal Knowledge

Carnal Knowledge
By:Estelle Barrett,Barbara Bolt
Published on 2013-01-08 by I.B.Tauris

Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and materiality, described as the |material turn.| It draws together established and emerging writers, whose research spans dance, music, film, fashion, design, photography, literature, painting and stereo-immersive VR, to demonstrate how art allows us to map the complex relations between nature and culture, between the body, language and knowledge. These writings are unique in the field because they represent the authors' commitment to a new materialism through the creative arts. The questions they address include: Does the material turn in the creative arts take a different turn from continental epistemology, philosophy and the humanities? How does the agency of matter, the material nature of artistic practice and the notion of |truth to materials| affect what we understand as the |new materialism?| In engaging with these questions the book offers perspectives on the emergence of this exciting fresh field of new materialism.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it had been supposed to be read, then it will be a novel, not a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every single character for a couple pages). None people had see the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. This compounded to produce me more or less hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can actually fuck up your GPA. 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