Zornitsa Dimitrova

Theatre and the Virtual (eBook, PDF)

Genesis, Touch, Gesture

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Produktbeschreibung

Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of theatrical potentiality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000557282
• Artikelnr.: 63631659

Autorenporträt

Zornitsa Dimitrova is a theatre researcher focusing on the philosophy of technology, the ecological turn, vulnerability studies, and the aesthetics of the Anthropocene. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Münster. Research monographs include Literary Worlds and Deleuze: Expression as Mimesis and Event (2017) and the present book, Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture (2022). Pieces on theatre have appeared in Deleuze Studies, The New Theatre Quarterly, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Performance Philosophy, and Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements

Introduction. The Virtual as a Theatrical Force

Chapter 1. Potentiality and the Virtual

The Depletion of Potentiality: Motion and Action

Motion and Growth in the Poetics and Na yasastra

Other Forms

Actual and Virtual

Potentiality as an Ontological Horizon

Chapter 2. Genesis and the Virtual

Strandbeests

Interfusing

Theatre as a Technical Object

Gestural Potentiality

The Transducer

Chapter 3. Violence and Touch



Land of Palms



The Technicity of Touch

Violent Conditions

Touch and Event

Repotentialising Matter

Engendering Practice: On Environmentality

Chapter 4. Organism and Gesture

Organism and the Field of Potentiality

Diaphanous Organismicity

Organism and Machine



Omnia



Response: Against Communication

Conclusion



Glossary

Index