Matthew Causey

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

From Simulation to Embeddedness

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Produktbeschreibung

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, Socíetas 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415368407
• ISBN-10: 0415368405
• Artikelnr.: 22528159

Autorenporträt

Matthew Causey is Lecturer in Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Socìetas 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