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(2010) Human Studies 33 (1).
Susan Kozel’s book, Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology, offers an ambitious, eclectic, and imaginative retrospective account of Kozel’s own experiments with choreography, performance, and digital technologies, along with an account of her admiration for Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The book presents itself in a highly designed package, dense with myriad black and white photographs of Kozel and her performance pieces. Its physical presence announces that it plans to hover somewhere between a coffee table art book, a script or workbook, and a standard academic text. Kozel tries to blur the lines between several disciplines, and the MIT press delivers her text in a format that makes this abundantly clear. Kozel makes the body her focus, and she hopes to enlist Merleau-Ponty and his account of “flesh” to explain the social, ethical, and political implications of her own performance pieces and experiments with dance, bodies, and digital technology. In particular, she is concerned...
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DOI: 10.1007/s10746-010-9139-8
Full citation:
Craig, (2010). Review of S. Kozel, Closer. Human Studies 33 (1), pp. 103-108.
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