The Dark Theatre: A Book about Loss

ISBN-13: 9780367436407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 332 str.

Alan Read

Opis

The Dark Theatre returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope (Sufferance) Wharf in London’s Docklands where Alan Read worked through the 1980s to identify a four-decade interregnum of ‘cultural cruelty’ wreaked by financialisation, austerity and communicative capitalism.

Spis treści

Part I: The Loss Adjustor: Collateral Damage in the Capitalocene; Chapter 1: The Dark Theatre: Bankruptcy & the Logics of Expulsion; Chapter 2: The Eruption of the Audience & the Dictatorship of the Performatariat; Chapter 3: All the Home’s a Stage: Social Reproduction & Everyday Life; Interlude: Dreadful Trade: The Vertigo of Attractions; Part II: Living Currency: Scenes from the Last Human Venue; Chapter 4: Irreparable State: Compensations of Performance; Chapter 5: Arrested Life: Ecology of the New Enclosures; Chapter 6: Cultural Cruelty: Extraordinary Rendition & Acoustic Shock; Chapter 7: Poor History: Field Notes from a Fire Sale; Outstanding Debts; The Milliner’s Shop; Bibliography; Index