Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture
From Simulation to Embeddedness
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2006
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-415-36840-7 (ISBN)
Description
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.
The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Societas Raffaello Sanzio and the Wooster Group, the book positions theatre and performance in technoculture and articulates the processes of aesthetics, metaphysics and politics.
This wide-ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena.
The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Societas Raffaello Sanzio and the Wooster Group, the book positions theatre and performance in technoculture and articulates the processes of aesthetics, metaphysics and politics.
This wide-ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Undergraduate
Illustrations
11 s/w Abbildungen, 11 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
529 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-36840-7 (9780415368407)
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Person
Matthew Causey is Lecturer in Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Content
Introduction: 'A Willing Suspension of Disbelief for the Moment' Part 1: Simulation (Before) 1. The Screen Test of the Double: The Uncanny Performer in the Space of Technology 2. Televisual Performance: Openness to the Mystery 3. Posthuman and Postorganic Performance: The (Dis)Appearance of Theatre in Virtual Spaces 4. Perspectiva Artificialis: The Duplicitous Geographies of Stage Illusion, or, The not so Splendid Isolation of the Actor on the Early Modern Perspective Stage and in the Historical Avant-Garde 5. The Ruins of Illusion: Theatre in the Rise of the Virtual and the Fall of Illusion 6. The Aesthetics of Disappearance and the Politics of Visibility Part 2: Embeddedness (After) 7. Stealing From God: The Crisis of Creation in Societas Raffaello Sanzio's Genesi and Eduardo Kac's Genesis 8. From Simulation to Embeddedness: Aestheticizing Politics and the Performance of Bare Life in the Bio-Politics of Digital Culture 9. The Theatre and Its Negative: Event, Truth, Void