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Being-With in Contemporary Performing Arts
The concept of being-with developed by the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy asks a fundamental question about human life, inasmuch as we have always been and will be co-existent with people and environments. All modes of sense-making and subjectivation, but also presence, can only occur within a context and through interaction. This is why historical forms of theater have frequently been viewed as sites of communality and why critical approaches have questioned concepts such as 'sense', 'meaning' and 'habitus'. Like literature, theater has also inherited the scene of myth: It satisfies our need for narration, interpretation and to share in something. In turn, the joint creation of meaning in scenic practices is also part of the traditional idealization of the theater – but is this ideal purely mythical? The authors of this book investigate and explore how meaning is being questioned or liberated in contemporary performances, and how individual thinking/action can be articulated to others, paving the way for other gestures, theatrical processes of recognition and the performative sharing process (of sense-making).
Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama
The conviction that the development and promotion of the arts, humanities and culture through the study of literature and the aesthetic are the fundamental constituents of any progress in society is at the heart of this volume. The essays gathered here explore the role of the imagination and aesthetic awareness in an age when the corporatization of knowledge is in the process of transforming literary studies, and political commitment is in danger of disappearing behind a supposedly post-ideological late-capitalist consensus. The main focus of the volume is the mutual implication of aesthetics and ideology and the status and value of different types of art within the political arena. Challeng...
Arts, Ecologies, Transitions
Arts, Ecologies, Transitions provides in-depth insights into how aesthetic relations and current artistic practices are fundamentally ecological and intrinsically connected to the world. As art is created in a given historic temporality, it presents specific modalities of productive and sensory relations to the world. With contributions from 49 researchers, this book tracks evolutions in the arts that demonstrate an awareness of the environmental, economic, social, and political crises. It proposes interdisciplinary approaches to art that clarify the multiple relationships between art and ecology through an exploration of key concepts such as collapsonauts, degrowth, place, recycling, and wa...
Ethical Militancy
In recent years, much research has been dedicated to the relationship between politics and aesthetics and, in particular, to the political power of aesthetics. This book makes a claim for what comes before any political decision is made and action taken; for what precedes the need for the subject to take a specific stance and adopt a particular (political) attitude. It interprets the "in-between space of aesthetics" (Erika Fischer-Lichte), where production and reception have traditionally met, as a topos within which "action itself is called into question" (Joseph Vogl). This is a space where aesthetics and ethics converge to trouble affirmations and beliefs, and to challenge the subject. By...
Années Vingt - Années Soixante. Réseaux du Sens - Réseaux des Sens- Zwanziger Jahre - Sechziger Jahre. Netzwerke des Sinns - Netzwerke der Sinne
La métaphore du réseau s'est imposée durant les années quatre vingt dix à l'occasion de ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler le « topical turn », pour décrire les logiques de développement de la vie culturelle et leur analyse en termes spatiaux plutôt que temporels. Simultanément, il arrive que la constitution de réseaux soit bel et bien déterminée historiquement notamment de manière générationnelle ou sociopolitique. Les contributeurs de cet ouvrage (spécialistes de philosophie, d'histoire culturelle, de littérature) s'inspirent de cette réflexion pour traiter d'un phénomène de réverbération dans l'histoire culturelle, en particulier d'expression allemande, des années vin...
Change Through Repetition
Art and politics are related through repetition. Both realms are structured by practices of repetition and share a common room of sens(e)uality – aesthetics in the emphatic sense of the word. It is the aesthetics and practices of repetition that reveal the relation between both realms. This volume proposes to explore aesthetic and cultural phenomena that effect change in the non-aesthetical realm, not so much in spite, but precisely because of their being 'mere' repetitions. Repetition shapes art works through procedures and processes of reproduction, copying, depiction, or reenactment. As representation of the world, mimetic art's relationship to the political and social world can be conc...
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters...
Mandelstam's Worlds
A critical study of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. It positions him in the literary, ideological, and aesthetic culture of his time as a writer embroiled in the changing literary culture and personal ethics of a new world.
Passions du corps dans les dramaturgies contemporaines
Les dramaturgies contemporaines se passionnent pour le corps, les corps. Jadis instrument de l'action dramatique, le corps reprend à présent ses droits sur scène ; se donne alors à voir la physis d’un corps vulnérable, désirant, traversé d’intensités, toujours déjà travaillé par l’échéance de sa propre mort. Les « passions du corps », au sens étymologique de « souffrances », désignent ainsi tout ce qui porte atteinte à l’intégrité du corps, tous les flux, forces ou émotions qui l’écartent de lui-même, l’arrachent à la fiction de l’identité entendue comme pure intériorité. Enfin, le terme « passions » fait évidemment référence au paradigme chris...
Übertragung im Theater
Ausgehend von der Struktur der Übertragung nach Jacques Lacan entwickelt Übertragung im Theater eine Methode der Aufführungsanalyse, die darstellende Kunst als genuin intersubjektiv und damit potentiell sozial und politisch definiert. Die Übertragungsstruktur bildet dabei die Voraussetzung für Wirkungen des Theaters, die strukturell der Liebe verwandt sind. Theater ist als gegenseitige, subjektivierende Struktur von Präsentieren und Zuschauen zu begreifen: Es interpelliert seine Subjekte und arbeitet mit Fiktionalisierungen der Funktionen von Bühne wie Publikum. Die vorliegende Studie fragt also ausgehend von der subjektivierenden Struktur der Übertragung nach dezidiert 'theatralen S...
