¿i¿ek and Performance

2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-41090-0
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4581 g

Reihe: Performance Philosophy

The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Žižek's influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance studies. Featuring a brand new essay from Žižek himself, this is an indispensable contribution to the emerging field of Performance Philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chow, B.

Mangold, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Performing Žižek: Hegel, Lacan, Marx and the Parallax View 1. Kantor's Symptom or Grotowski's Fantasy?: Defining a Political Theatre over a Theatre of Politics; Bryce Lease 2. The Lacanian Performative: Austin after Žižek; Geoff Boucher 3. Who's Watching? Me!: Theatrality, Spectatorship, and the Žižekian Subject; Peter M. Boenisch 4. Žižek's Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director's Subjectivity; Eve Katsouraki 5. 'Even if we do not take things seriously… we are still doing them ': Disidentification, Ideology, and Queer Performance; Stephen Greer 6. The Performative Constitution of Liberal Totalitarianism on Facebook; Natasha Lushetich 7. Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour; Graham Wolfe 8. 'There are more of you than there are of us': Forced Entertainment and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject; Linda Taylor 9. Ideology and the True/False Performance of Heritage; Paul Johnson 10. GettingInvolved with the Neighbour's Thing: Žižek and the Participatory Performance of Reactor (UK); Daniel Oliver 11. Dancing with Žižek: Sublime Objets and the Hollywood Dance Film; Melissa Blanco Borelli 12. There are dreams that cannot be: 'Actual Idiocy' and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle; Dave Calvert 13. Theatre's Immediacy: Notes on Performing 'With' Žižek; Patrick Duggan 14. Collaboration, Violence, and Difference; Simon Ellis and Colin Poole 15. The Tickling Object: On Žižek and Comedy; Broderick D.V. Chow 16. Notes on Performing, its Frame, and its Gaze; Slavoj Žižek Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Blanco Borelli, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Peter M. Boenisch, University of Kent, UK Geoff Boucher, Deakin University, Dave Calvert, University of Huddersfield, UK Patrick Duggan, University of Exeter, UK Simon Ellis, Roehampton University, UK Stephen Greer, University of Glasgow, UK Paul Johnson, University of Wolverhampton, UK Eve Katsouraki, University of East London, UK Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Natasha Lushetich, University of Exeter, UK Daniel Oliver, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Colin Poole, Independent Choreographer, UK Linda Taylor, Northumbria University, UK Graham Wolfe, National University of Singapore, Singapore Slavoj i ek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia