Abstract
Steve Paxton's contact improvisation, though meant to develop our “habit of attending” to sensations and reflexes to overcome American democracy's conditioning in “voluntary slavery,” has instead mainly become an apolitical, “spiritual” practice. But CI could, by showing the relation between culture and conscious experience, radicalize participation in all our relations.
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