A philosophy of textile : between practice and theory /
"Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters such as the seam, the needle a...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
[2020].
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Textile as making: techne between practice and theory
- Weaving the chapters
- (Inter)mingling
- Chapter 1: Folding
- An unfolding of making
- Metaphorics and metonymy as enfolding modes for thinking
- Textile-space
- La Maison Baroque
- Chapter 2: Textile as shimmering surface
- Veils: A space of scintillation
- Faintly gleaming
- Illicit encounters
- Absurdity
- Through the looking glass
- Chapter 3: Seaming
- Seaming as Passage
- Hand and machine stitching
- Seaming as suturing
- Seaming as Trace
- Conjunctions and crossings
- Chapter 4: Textile as viscous substance
- Attacking the boundary
- Collapsing boundaries
- Flow
- Ontological secretions
- A substance between two states
- Chapter 5: Fraying
- Frayed and fraying: A politics of translation
- Frayed and fraying cloth: Broken and contingent
- To the edge: Pointing away from the centre
- Worn through
- Fraying
- Chapter 6: Textile as caressing subject/object
- Affective touching
- Proximity
- Opening out
- becoming . .
- Measuring distance
- First actions of hands
- Synoptic-synthaesthetic caressing
- Conclusion
- Thinking-through-practice
- Textile practices as methodology
- Practice-theory interplay
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Bibliography
- Index