Extraordinary Presence

Download or read book (Extra)Ordinary Presence written by Markus Gottwald and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as everyday experience and as an experience of intense moments. It raises questions about diverse social configurations of presence as well as about the specific cultural repertoires which encode, articulate, and shape discourses of presence. The contributions take as a premise that phenomena of presence are connected to particular forms of knowledge. Especially tacit knowledge (pre)determines experiences of individual and collective presence and becomes tangible in moments of presence or presentification.