More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor gesture’s power to fashion relations, its capacity to open new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world—in particular what Manning terms “autistic perception.”

Examining the role of atmospheres in daily life, and defines their main characteristics. Outlining the typical phenomenological situations in which we experience atmospheres, it assesses their impact on contemporary aesthetics.

Anthony Storr’s account of the development of the personality has become a classic. It argues that there is nothing wrong with being oneself, indeed individuality demonstrates the ability to form relationships with others. By tracing the stages that lead from childhood through adolescence to maturity, Dr Storr imparts much information about human development as well as providing many insights into the causes of neuroses and other psychological problems.

This book examines the way that objects ‘speak’ to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the process of evocation it finds an open and continuing dialogue between things, their makers and their consumers.

Body, Memory, and Architecture traces the significance of the body from its place as the divine organizing principle in the earliest built forms to its near elimination from architectural thought in this century. The authors draw on contemporary models of spatial perception as well as on body-image theory in arguing for a return of the body to its proper place in the architectural equation