Movement-space: The changing domain of thinking resulting from the development of new kinds of spatial awareness

TitleMovement-space: The changing domain of thinking resulting from the development of new kinds of spatial awareness
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsThrift, Nigel
JournalEconomy and Society
Volume33
Issue4
Pagination582-604
ISSN0308-5147
AbstractThis paper is an attempt to describe the nature of a new calculative background that is currently coming into existence, a background that will both guide and constitute what counts as ‘thinking’. It begins by providing a capsule history of how this background has become a more and more pervasive quality of Euro-American cultures as a result of the rise of ‘qualculation’. It then moves on to consider how this qualculative background is producing new apprehensions of space and time before ending by considering how new kinds of sensorium may now be becoming possible. In this final section, I illustrate my argument by considering the changing presence of the hand, co-ordinate systems and language, thereby attempting to conjure up the lineaments of a new kind of movement-space.
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0308514042000285305
DOI10.1080/0308514042000285305
Short TitleMovement-space