Eric C. Mullis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte, USA. He has published essays on somaesthetics, dance technology, and dance ethics, as well as the book, Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South (2019).

'Mullis’s Instruments of Embodiment cast clothes—items close to the body and activated through movement in social contexts of performance—as potent interlocutors for dancers, choreographers, and designers alike. For fashion design theorists and practitioners the book may be of particular interest as it unearths a complexity of sensorial, material, and social aspects of garments in interaction with the moving bodies.' Tamara Tomić-Vajagić, Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Cultureread the full book review here

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Media of TouchChapter 3: Anarchist ExperimentsChapter 4: Your First CostumeChapter 5: Modern Designs and Modern NetworksChapter 6: Dancers in High FashionChapter 7: Digital CostumingChapter 8: Stepping into the PastIndex

Eric C. Mullis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte, USA. He has published essays on somaesthetics, dance technology, and dance ethics, as well as the book, Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South (2019).

'Mullis’s Instruments of Embodiment cast clothes—items close to the body and activated through movement in social contexts of performance—as potent interlocutors for dancers, choreographers, and designers alike. For fashion design theorists and practitioners the book may be of particular interest as it unearths a complexity of sensorial, material, and social aspects of garments in interaction with the moving bodies.' Tamara Tomić-Vajagić, Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Cultureread the full book review here

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Media of TouchChapter 3: Anarchist ExperimentsChapter 4: Your First CostumeChapter 5: Modern Designs and Modern NetworksChapter 6: Dancers in High FashionChapter 7: Digital CostumingChapter 8: Stepping into the PastIndex