Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance

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In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the idea that of the “more than human” within the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whitehead’s process philosophy and Simondon’s theory of individuation, she extends the concepts of movement and relation developed in her earlier work toward the notion of “choreographic thinking.” Here, she uses choreographic thinking to explore a mode of perception prior to the settling of experience into established categories. Manning connects this to the idea that of “autistic perception,” described by autistics as the awareness of a relational field prior to the so-known as neurotypical tendency to “chunk” experience into predetermined subjects and objects. Autistics give an explanation for that, somewhat than in an instant distinguishing objects—such as chairs and tables and humans—from one every other on entering a given environment, they experience the environment as step by step taking form. Manning maintains that this mode of awareness underlies all perception. What we perceive is never first a topic or an object, but an ecology. From this vantage point, she proposes that we believe an ecological politics where movement and relation take precedence over predefined categories, such as the neurotypical and the neurodiverse, or the human and the nonhuman. What would it mean to embrace an ecological politics of collective individuation?

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