Žižek and Performance [electronic resource] /
Chow, B.editor.
Mangold, A.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Performing Žižek: Hegel, Lacan, Marx, and the Parallax View; 1 The Lacanian Performative: Austin after Žižek; 2 Kantor's Symptom or Grotowski's Fantasy? Towards a Theatre of the Political; 3 Who's Watching? Me!: Theatrality, Spectatorship, and the Žižekian Subject; 4 Žižek's Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace, and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director's Subjectivity
5 'Even if we do not take things seriously ... we are still doing them': Disidentification, Ideology, and Queer Performance6 The Performative Constitution of Liberal Totalitarianism on Facebook; 7 Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour; 8 'There are more of you than there are of us': Forced Entertainment and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject; 9 Ideology and the True/False Performance of Heritage; 10 Getting Involved with the Neighbour's Thing: Žižek and the Participatory Performance of Reactor (UK); 11 Dancing with Žižek: Sublime Objets and the Hollywood Dance Film
12 'Actual Idiocy' and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle13 Theatre's Immediacy: Notes on Performing 'with' Žižek; 14 Collaboration, Violence, and Difference; 15 The Tickling Object: On Žižek and Comedy; 16 Notes on Performing, Its Frame, and Its Gaze; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Performing arts.
Philosophy (General).
Theater-History.
Arts.
Theater.
Performing Arts.
Philosophy, general.
Theatre History.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.