Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This issue takes its cue from a word and the fall lodged inside it. The word “cadences” carries a procedural and dynamic dimension that is not only related to modulations and rhythms, but also to falls. “Cadere,” a word that has the same origin as “cadence,” contains the idea of falling. We can fall into, or out of, a particular type of attention, curiosity, or passion. We can flow in attention through falls, as happens in surfing or Contact Improvisation. These possibilities describe well the way we live in constant “improvisation.” Two concerns run through the issue with equal force. The first is that attention is a collective and ecological affair: something that happens between bodies, technologies, and milieus, rather than inside a single mind. The second is that attention is inseparable from movement and from the body: a doing before it is a state, felt in the shift of weight, the turn of the head, the grounding and the falling of a dancer. These two concerns, the ecological and the corporeal, are the twin axes of the issue.
DOI: 10.34619/nxis-ww2r
Language: English
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Award: G6666149401
OpenAlex ID: W7204201157