{"id":590,"date":"2013-09-05T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=590"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:53:27","slug":"nanopolitics-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"nanopolitics handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>nanopolitics handbook<br \/>\n<\/b><i>the nanopolitics group<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>How to think politics with and through the body?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The invention of new modes of sensibility is vital to enriching and sustaining political engagements, labours and lives in the situated contexts of urban collectivity. The <i>nanopolitics handbook <\/i>investigates the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity, precarious lives and modes of collaboration \u2013 through bodies and their encounters.\u00a0 Starting from the exploration of what bodies can do \u2013 with curiosity, courage and care \u2013 nanopolitics is a proposal for producing new collective subjectivations.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the experiments and experiences of the nanopolitics group, this book proposes exercises, concepts and ideas as little maps and machines for action. Drawing on social movements, grassroots organizing, dance, theatre and bodywork, the reflections and practices here present strategies for navigating and reconfiguring the playing field of \u2018nanopolitics\u2019, activating its entanglement with the major politics of our time.\u00a0<!--more-->Texts and exercises by: the nanopolitics group, esquizo-barcelona, David Vercauteren, Camila Mello and Fabiane Borges, Nelly Alfandari, Jorge Goia, Lottie Child, Carla Bottiglieri, Gabriella Alberti, Paolo Plotegher, Davyd Bodoun, Emma Dowling, Mara Ferreri, Manuela Zechner, Bue R\u00fcbner Hansen, Amit Rai, Anja Kanngieser, Lisa Burger, Irina Burger and Signe Lupnov.<\/p>\n<p><b>The nanopolitics group <\/b>formed in London in early 2010, around a desire to think politics through and as embodied experience and practice. As an open collective they have organized monthly movement, theatre and bodywork based workshops, as well as discussions and interventions in the context of social movements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-ZV8HA7QTZNMCJ\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"ZV8HA7QTZNMCJ\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-ZV8HA7QTZNMCJ\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Official release to the book trade in Winter 2013-2014.<\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/nanopolitics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nanopolitics handbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>280 pages, 5.5 x 8.5<br \/>\nUK: \u00a320 \/ US: $26<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-268-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nanopolitics handbook the nanopolitics group How to think politics with and through the body? 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