Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites of Disimagination

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Part I: Theoretical Advances in the Pulsatile Imaginary and Disimagination
	Chapter 1: Introduction
		References
	Chapter 2: Elemental States of Image: Elan, Pulsion, Rapt, Rupture, Caesura, and Syncopation
		Pulsion – Σφυγμός
		Χώρα
		Rhythm, Rupture, Sacrifice
		Caesura, ‘Change of Rhythm’: Unheimliche Urvater’s Yowl
		Informe: Interruption, Souffle, Abyss
		Pathei Mathos: Rite of Disimagination in Le Sacre
		Kiefer’s ‘Practice of the Wild’: Life Force. Entstellung—Disfiguring
		Brancusi’s Aphairesis—Le Don, L’envol, L’êlan
		References
Part II: Emergences – Resurgences. Pulsatile Flow
	Chapter 3: Emergences – Resurgences: Notes on the Unformed in Conversation with Henri Michaux
		References
	Chapter 4: Pulsatile Choreography: Rhythm, (Dis)Enchantment, and Disimagination in Premodern Dance
		Rhythms of the Carole
		The Enchanted Carole
		An Alternative Pulsatile Imaginary: Peasant Dance
		Early Modern Dance: An Aesthetic of Disenchantment
		References
	Chapter 5: Passing and Flowing: Rhythmical Entanglements of Writing, Painting and Knitting in Virginia Woolf and Berthe Morisot
	Chapter 6: Confusion at Sea: The Return to Water
		The Sea Frothing Forth
		Tremendous Waves
		Aids to Worship
		References
Part III: Tearing Mimesis – Ways of Disimagination and Re-incarnation of Image
	Chapter 7: Incarnation and “Déchirure”; Annunciation and Crucifixion
		Incarnation as a Breach in Mimesis
		From Annunciation to Crucifixion
		Suspense of Figure, Excess of Materiality
		Color Pools of Virtuality
		Materializing the Sun Light and Plucking Poultry: Anna Ancher
		Angelic Cows and Slaughtered Oxes: Theodor Philipsen
		Porosity and Material Ecstasy: Wilhelm Hammershøi
		References
	Chapter 8: Paint Matter and Trace: Reflections on Horia Bernea’s Art
		References
	Chapter 9: Rite of Spring—Rite of Disimagination: An Inquiry into the Pulsatile Imaginary of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre
		Le Sacre’s Philosophical Frame
		Psychological Ground: Le Sacre’s Pathosformeln—An Iconography of Passion
		The Imaginary of the Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One
		Final Demise: Nijinsky’s ‘Ordeal of Dancing’—Rite of Disimagination
		Pathei Mathos and the Pathos of the Creative Process
		Life and Death: Pulse, Rhythm, Accent, Tolchok
		References
	Chapter 10: Kneading Dreams: Material Imagination and Agency in Performative Clay Works
		Imaginaries of Matter
		The Agency of the World
		Paste (la pâte)
		Touching Clay
		Appearances and Dissolutions Through Time
		The Rhythm of Kneading Hands
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Vibrant Mimesis, New Materialism, and Otherness
	Chapter 11: Vibrant Mimesis: New Materialism to Mimetic Studies
		Mimetic Influx & Efflux: Encounters
		Erotic Logos & Nonhuman Pathos
		Doodling Poetics: “Lo a Shape!”
		Mirroring Influences in the Anthropocene
		References
	Chapter 12: Motor of Darkness: On the Cartographic Visual Drive of Anthropocene Culture
		The Destruction of (The Image of) the Globe
		Artificial Darkness
		The Impulse to Map
		Classical Representation’s Topological Relations
		Chiaroscuro’s Illusory World
		Mapping inner Space’s Concave Sphere
		The Motorization of Modern Cartography
		References
	Chapter 13: A Venture into the Realm of the Nonhuman—or How Artistic Performative Methods Can Propose a Practice of Exchanging Knowledge with Matter
		Introduction
		A Meeting Between Stone and Human
		Dismantling Anthropomorphism
		A Discursive Metabolism Between Phenomena
		The Potential of Artistic Fabulation
		Conclusion
		References
			Internet References
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