Full Description
Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board Motility draws from critical cultural studies, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, urban sociology, and poststructuralist theory in the context of human communication and performance to construct an epistemology of riding boards. This book ponders why we move the way we do and examines the ways in which movements communicate, developing, as a result, a theoretical perspective or board motility that is gestural and fluid, moving in relation to shifting social and physical landscapes. By combining the discourses and practices of critical theory and physical movement, this text presents a sustained analysis of radical political philosophy. In the book the symbolic narratives associated with each physical practice are deconstructed as their theoretical counterparts are thoroughly established. Then, through performance, the author narrows the divide between these two forms of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, outlining and embodying an ontological and epistemological stoke in the process that emerges from riding boards, on both waves and streets.
Contents
Introduction: On Board Motility and Everyday Movement
PART I: Foundations
I. Riding Waves and Critical Cultural Practice
II. Street Skateboarding and Radical Spatial Inquiry
III. Proto-Poststructuralist Thought and Motility
IV. Spatial Subjectivity and Everyday Practitioners
V: Performing Situational Space and Presence
PART II: Situations
VI: The Commute
VII: Seven Days of Waves I
VIII: The Skateboarding Dérive
IX: Seven Days of Waves II
X: Working with Waves
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
