A Philosophy of Practising / / Antonia Pont.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022
• VerfasserIn: Pont, Antonia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 3 B/W tables

Provides an account of 'practising', its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with Deleuze's Difference and RepetitionOffers a detailed account of practising (as mode of doing), its criteria and relation to time, as well as lived implications Applies Deleuzian thought to practice-based modalities and everyday contexts – with political, artistic, spiritual and personal examples including from yoga, creative writing and meditationIncludes a wide range of examples from the fields of the creative arts, physical activities, scholarship, daily life, yoga and meditationAntonia 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A Framework for Practising: Deriving the Four Criteria -- 2. Habit’s Time: Between Routine and Compulsion -- 3. A Different Difference and Repetition’s Three Times -- 4. Relaxation: That Unnatural Effort -- 5. Repeating Repetition: Practising with the Future -- Conclusion: A Theory of Practising -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- Index