Bodies in the streets : : the somaesthetics of city life / / edited by Richard Shusterman.

• Superior document: Studies in Somaesthetics; volume02
• TeilnehmendeR: Shusterman, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Somaesthetics; volume02.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and patrolling police. As bodies shape city life, so the city’s spaces, structures, economies, politics, rhythms, and atmospheres reciprocally shape the urban soma. This collection of original essays explores the somaesthetic qualities and challenges of city life (in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas) from a variety of perspectives ranging from philosophy, urban theory, political theory, and gender studies to visual art, criminology, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Together these essays illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles and trials of bodies in the city streets.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Richard Shusterman -- Illustrations / Richard Shusterman -- Contributors / Richard Shusterman -- Bodies in the Streets and the Somaesthetics of City Life / Richard Shusterman -- The Soma, the City, and the Weather / Richard Shusterman -- Bodies in the Streets: The Soma, the City, and the Art of Living / Richard Shusterman -- The Weather-Worlds of Urban Bodies / Mădălina Diaconu -- White on Black: Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen / Henrik Reeh -- Festival, Revolution, and Death / Richard Shusterman -- Body Politics: Revolt and City Celebration / Matthew Crippen -- Bodies in the Streets of Eastern Europe: Rhetorical Space and the Somaesthetics of Revolution / Noemi Marin -- From Dancing to Dying in the Streets: Somaesthetics of the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment and Juan of the Dead / Marilyn G. Miller -- Performances of Resistance, Gender, and Crime / Richard Shusterman -- “Street” is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces / Ilaria Serra -- Bodies in Alliance and New Sites of Resistance: Performing the Political in Neoliberal Public Spaces / Federica Castelli -- East End Prostitution and the Fear of Contagion: On Body Consciousness of the Ripper Case / Chung-jen Chen -- Towards a Somaesthetic Conception of Culture in Iran: Somaesthetic Performance as Cultural Praxis in Tehran / Alireza Fakhrkonandeh -- Bodies in the Streets of Literature and Art / Richard Shusterman -- “Terrae Incognitae”: The Somaesthetics of Thomas De Quincey’s Psychogeography / Evy Varsamopoulou -- The Empty Spaces You Run Into: The City as Character and Background in William S. Burroughs’s Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch / Robert W. Jones -- The Somaesthetic Sublime: Varanasi in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art / Pradeep A. Dhillon -- Back Matter -- Name Index / Richard Shusterman.