Energetic Bodies : : Sciences and Aesthetics of Strength and Strain / / ed. by Thomas Moser, Wilma Scheschonk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ashkin Stanton, Miriam,; Dekeukeleire, Thijs,; Dezeuze, Anna,; Lehmann, Johannes F.,; Mersmann, Jasmin,; Moser, Thomas,; Muhr, Paula,; Renner, Adrian,; Scheschonk, Wilma,
• HerausgeberIn: Moser, Thomas,; Scheschonk, Wilma,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Imaginarien der Kraft , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

Im Fin de Siècle war "Energie" bis weit über die Grenzen der Wissenschaften hinaus das Schlagwort, über das die Gestaltungssouveränität der westlichen Moderne ebenso wie deren Grenzen ausgehandelt wurden. Der menschliche Körper stand im Zentrum der Sichtbarmachung dieses rätselhaften Antri...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Content
• Acknowledgements
• Sex, Drugs and Bicycles. Alfred Jarry’s “Le surmâle” and the Aesthetics of Energy-Enhancing Strength
• Force of Gravity/Power of Labour—or: Heaving Stones
• Bodies, Suspended. Eadweard Muybridge and the Allure of “Unsupported Transit”
• Embodied Experiences of Force. Carabin’s Anthropomorphic Fauteuils and the “Muscular Sense” in late 19th Century Medicine
• Visualising the Muscular Force. Charcot’s and Féré’s Approaches to Exploring the Neurophysiology of Movement in Hysteria Patients
• The Feeling of Forces. Robert Mayer’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Physics and Metaphysics of the Body
• Movement, Muscle, Matter. Jef Lambeaux’s Wrestling Groups of the 1880s and 1890s
• A Fix of Energy. Joseph Beuys Boxing
• Body Sculpting. Paradessent Strategies in Contemporary Art
• Sweat, Strain and Surplus in Mika Rottenberg’s “Tropical Breeze”
• Authors
• Credits