SpaceDBodyDRitual Performativity in the City By: Reena Tiwari Publisher: Lexington Books Print ISBN: 9780739128572, 0739128574 eText ISBN: 9780739147634, 0739147633 Pages: 168 Format: PDF Available from $ 55.20 USD SKU 9780739147634R120 Set against the contemporary thinking of the city as a spectacle, SpaceDBodyDRitual: Performativity in the City establishes everyday life in the city as a ground for authentic experience. Reena Tiwari emphasizes the city as a space of lived experience-an intricately layered space giving people a poetic experience, responding to their memories and desires. She also explores the conflict between two ideas: the idea of thee 'city as text' to be read and understood from a distance, and the 'city as body,' where the body, after writing the text through its performance, achieves the capacity to read and understand it. SpaceDBodyDRitual demonstrates that the abstract 'seeing' embedde Download ebook: https://ouo.io/RJ1HYT
