Body in Crisis

Christine Greiner’s research has explored movement practices and body-centered performances from Brazil and Japan, and more recently, the political dimensions of communication and bodily arts. A Professor at the Pontifica Universidade Católica of São Paulo (PUC-SP), she is author of five previous books and numerous articles.Cristina Fernandes Rosa is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Roehampton, London.The late Christopher Larkosh was Associate Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.Grace Holleran is a doctoral student in in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

“Compact with references to authors from Agamben to Prigogine, from Bataille to Viveiros de Castro; from Susan Sontag to Francisco Varela, this translation comes at a particularly pressing time, when social, political, and aesthetic forces combine to relaunch the question: what can a body do . . . The book will make an immense contribution to dance studies and to performance studies, and, given the current boom of interest in dance and choreography, to the visual arts, philosophy of art, museum studies, curatorial studies, and related fields.”—André Lepecki, New York University

• Contents AcknowledgmentsForeword by Cristina Fernandes RosaTranslators’ Note by Christopher Larkosh and Grace HolleranPreface to the English Edition by Christine GreinerIntroductionPart I: Networks of DestabilizationChapter 1: The Agents of the CrisisChapter 2: Metaphorical Epidemics: The Appetite for DeterritorializationPart II: Operators of ResistanceChapter 3: Principles of Experience: The Profaning Aptitudes of the OrganismChapter 4: Circuits of ActivationPart III: Paradigms of ImmunizationChapter 5: Systemic CrisesBibliography Notes