Erin Manning (theorist) explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	20th-/21st-century philosophy
Erin Manning
Birth Date:	1 February 1969
Main Interests:	Political philosophy
Influences:	Whitehead, Simondon, Deleuze, Guattari, James, Nietzsche, Nancy

Erin Manning (born 1969) is a Canadian cultural theorist and political philosopher as well as a practicing artist in the areas of dance, fabric design, and interactive installation. Manning's research spans the fields of art, political theory, and philosophy. She received her Ph.D in Political Philosophy from University of Hawaii in 2000. She currently teaches in the Concordia University Fine Arts Faculty.^[1]

Work

Manning is founder and director of the SenseLab,^[2] a research-creation laboratory affiliated with Hexagram: Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology^[3] in Montreal. She collaborates with Brian Massumi.^[4] They co-edit a book series at MIT Press entitled Technologies of Lived Abstraction and are founding members of the editorial collective of the Sense Lab journal Inflexions: A Journal of Research Creation.^[5]

Manning frequently gives workshops and lectures at universities and other institutions, including but not limited to the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts) (with Brian Massumi),^[6] the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,^[1] the Dance Bar (International Dance Programme) in Sweden,^[7] and the University of California at Berkeley.^[8]

Bibliography

• Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) ^{[9] [10]}
• Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) ^{[11] [12]}
• Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (MIT Press, 2009) ^{[13] [14]}
• Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance (Duke University Press, 2013) ^{[15] [16]}
• Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (with Brian Massumi; University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
• The Minor Gesture (Duke University Press, 2016) ^[17]

External links

• Erinmovement.com Personal website with news and art/research project descriptions.
• The SenseLab.
• Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation.
• Technologies of Lived Abstraction MIT Press book series.

Notes and References

1. http://www.egs.edu/faculty/erin-manning/biography/ Erin Manning
2. http://www.senselab.ca/ SenseLab
3. http://hexagram.concordia.ca/ Hexagram
4. http://www.brianmassumi.com Brian Massumi
5. http://www.inflexions.org/ Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation
6. Brian Massumi and Erin Manning. Generating the Impossible. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Workshop. Zurich. August 18, 2010
7. Erin Manning. The Dance Bar with Erin Manning. Dance Bar. International Dance Programme. Sweden, April 2010
8. Erin Manning and Janet O'Shea. Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. University of California at Berkeley. Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall). April 06, 2010
9. Hirji. Faiza. 2004. Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada. Canadian Journal of Communication. en. 29. 2. 237–238 . 1499-6642. 10.22230/cjc.2004v29n2a1443. free.
10. Tiessen. Matthew. 2016-11-06. Book Review: Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada. Space and Culture. en. 8. 1. 101–103. 10.1177/1206331204271451. 143801917.
11. Web site: Cynthia Francica on "The Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty". Francica. Cynthia. 2010. E3W Review of Books. University of Texas at Austin. 2017-12-29.
12. McCormack. Derek P.. 2007. Politics and Moving Bodies. 20452603. Political Theory. 35. 6. 816–824. 10.1177/0090591707307607. 151584951.
13. Ferro-Murray. Ashley. 2011. Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (review). Dance Research Journal. 43. 2. 101–104. 1940-509X. 10.1017/s014976771100012x. 190679448.
14. Blassnigg. Martha. 2011-04-28. Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (review). Leonardo. 44. 2. 177–178. 1530-9282. 10.1162/leon_r_00130. 57572420.
15. Stanger. Arabella. 2015-04-03. Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance, by Erin Manning. Contemporary Theatre Review. 25. 2. 269–270. 10.1080/10486801.2015.1020693. 194013300. 1048-6801.
16. Web site: Always More than One: Individuation's Dance. Grobelny. Joseph. Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. University of South Carolina. https://web.archive.org/web/20160917043345/http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/itineration/node/53. 2016-09-17. dead. 2017-12-29.
17. Holland. Eugene W.. 2017-08-29. The minor gesture. Contemporary Political Theory. 17. en. 244–247. 10.1057/s41296-017-0145-8. 1470-8914. free.