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

Author: Nigel Thrift

Source: Economy and Society, Volume 33, Number 4, November 2004 , pp. 582-604(23)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This 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.

Keywords: calculation; movement-space; sensorium; hand; co-ordinate systems; language

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/0308514042000285305

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