Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy

With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement. From this idea of intensity-the incipiency at the heart of movement-Manning develops the concept of preacceleration, which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.