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Concluding Rhythms: To Dance

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This chapter explores the ethics of being a bodily, identifiable, stratified self, but one that encompasses and engenders affectensity in dancing a rhythm, dancing a diagram “as opposed to still signifying and subjective programs” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980/1987, p. 187). It is not easy to find new ways to act and think while still situated within and through the stratified order of expressions that produce bodies as subjects (Krejsler, 2016). The aim is not to dance oneself into a “catastrophic black hole” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980/1987, p. 389), but to dismantle habit, fixed knowledge, and reproductive routine, little by little, moving always in an ethical line of enhanced capacity.

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Hargraves, V.J. (2020). Concluding Rhythms: To Dance. In: Children and the Ethics of Creativity. Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6691-2_11

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