{"product_id":"making-movement-modern-by-whitney-e-laemmli-9780226845807","title":"Making Movement Modern","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship between mind and body, freedom and control, and the individual and the state.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the early twentieth century, human bodily movement garnered interest among researchers who were convinced that understanding and controlling it could help govern an increasingly frazzled, fragmented world. \u003cem\u003eMaking Movement Modern\u003c\/em\u003e traces one movement visualization technique, Labanotation, from its origins in expressionist dance, Austro-Hungarian military discipline, and contemporary physiology to its employment in factories and offices a half-century later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrustrated by societies that seemed plagued by regimentation and alienation, the users of Laban-inspired systems—from artists and scientists to factory owners, politicians, lawyers, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and computer scientists—hoped to provide opportunities for individual expression while simultaneously harnessing movement to serve the needs of larger communities, businesses, and states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Movement Modern\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how Labanotation's creator, choreographer Rudolf Laban, and his acolytes offered this system to a surprising variety of individuals and groups. It was a technique that promised liberation through expressive movement; it was also a means of organising fascist displays of pure \"Aryan\" culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book explores these political ambiguities as Laban-based systems entered postwar society in the United States and the United Kingdom, where they were used to document disappearing folk cultures, treat Holocaust survivors, and make even the dullest, most repetitive work feel spiritually meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCentral to these efforts were vast programmes to collect and store new kinds of personal movement data, and this history also has much to tell us about mass data collection today. This is a book for anyone interested in the relationship between art, science, data, and the human body across the tumultuous twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47306921148652,"sku":"9780226845807","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20686353482268.jpg?v=1771068805","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/making-movement-modern-by-whitney-e-laemmli-9780226845807","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}