Dialectics of Participation

ISBN-13: 9780367142308 / Angielski / Inna / 2023

Opis

Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory, Gareth White sharply examines meaning as a process that happens to us as we are engaged in the problems and negotiations of a participatory performance.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Chapter 1. Watching, Doing, Meaning

Contradiction 1: Watching, Tide Whisperer, The Body Thinks, Intentionality and consciousness, Body, situation, performance, Not representation, enactment of a world, Contentless spectating,Constitutive subjectivity, Storm

Contradiction 2: Action, Fight Night, Inaction and action, Loopy, Rationality, Quality, The Art Object

Contradiction 3: Body, Counting Sheep, Body image, body schema, Opacity, Process as aesthetic object, Subject/object, Crackle, Doing and meaning

Chapter 2. Other People/Other Things

Contradiction 4: Object, MADHOUSE re:exit, Strange affordances, Assemblage as object, Self as object

Contradiction 5: Affect, The Droves, Empathy and care, Donating my body to performance, Mind reading, Wonder and consternation

Contradiction 6: Play, £!€$ (LIES), Semblance and game, Enacting play, Can the rich think?, Occurrent arts

Chapter 3. Autonomy/Identity

Contradiction 7: Authenticity, Justice Syndicate, The jargon of immersive theatre, Absorption, No subject, no object, Contradiction 8: Mediation, Binaural Dinner Date, Channelling performance, Inside or outside, Riddle, Risk, Remainder, Antinomies of continuity

Contradiction 9: Identity, The Professor’s Privilege, The Privileged, Privilege & authenticity, Selflessness, Homeostasis and identity

Conclusion. Culture, Crisis, Aesthetics

Contradiction 10: Culture, Dismantle this Room, Culture industry, Crackles, shudders and contradiction

Contradiction 11: A Post Covid Coda, The new factories of cognitive capitalism, Global weirding and post-normal tech bubbles, The uses of contradiction

 

Index

O autorze

Gareth White is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK