Performing antagonism : theatre, performance & radical democracy /: theatre, performance & radical democracy. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tony Fisher, Eve Katsouraki, editors.
• Editors: Fisher, Tony; Katsouraki, Eve
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Performance and the Tragic Politics of the Agōn; Agonism and the 'Tragic' Conception of the Political; Dissensual Gestures and Radical Aesthetics; Notes; Chapter 2: Tragedy's Philosophy; Feeding the Ancients with Our Own Blood1; Philosophy's Tragedy and the Dangerous Perhaps; Knowing and Not Knowing: How Oedipus Brings Down Fate; Rage, Grief and War; Gorgias: Tragedy Is a Deception that Leaves the Deceived Wiser Than the Non-deceived; Justice as Conflict (An Argument for Polytheism) Tragedy as a Dialectical Mode of ExperienceNotes; Chapter 3: Tragedy: Maternity, Natality, Theatricality; Antigone: Agave; O koinon autadelphon Ismenes kara; Notes; Chapter 4: Parterre: Olympic Wrestling, National Identities, and the Theatre of Agonism; Introduction; Embodying Agonism; British Wrestling in Crisis; Nationality and Legitimacy; Olympic Wrestling and its Theatrical Double; Notes; Chapter 5: 'An Actor, But in Life': Spectatorial Consciousness and Materialist Theatre: Some Notes Apropos Althusser; Political Theatre Today: Between Radical Doubt and Wilful Ignorance1 Moments of Recognition: The Politicity of TheatreCritical Collectivity: Playing Ibsen's Enemy of the People; 'Our Crisis': The Uneasy Oscillation Between Fictional and Spectatorial Reality; The Futility of Political Intervention and the Irruption of Real Responsibility; Incomplete Performances; Notes; Chapter 6: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics; The Politics of the Count; 'Criminality, Pure and Simple'; Facilitating Dissensus; The Art of the 'We'; For a Representational Pluralism; Notes Chapter 7: Performing Protest: Occupation, Antagonism and Radical DemocracyAnti-globalisation Movement; Occupy St Paul's; Occupy Democracy; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: A Life Not Worth Living: On the Economy of Vulnerability and Powerlessness in Political Suicide; 'Troika Is Back in Town!'; The Impact of Economic Austerity on Greek Suicide; Political Suicide and Theatricality; Theatricality and the Affirmative Reversal; Passivity, Powerlessness, Abandonment; Reclaiming Sovereignty; Notes Chapter 9: Collective Horizons: Rethinking the Performative and Political: (Im)Possibilities of Being TogetherAntagonism and Collectivism: 'We' Versus 'They'; Curating Antagonism; The Evental 'We'; The Evental 'They'; Performing Antagonism; Where Are 'We' Now; Notes; Chapter 10: On the Performance of 'Dissensual Speech'; Revolutionary Poiesis and the Sceptical Conjuncture; Assimilated, Administered and Authorised Speech; On Dissensual Acts that 'Communise'; The Enunciative Form of Dissensual Speech; Performative Modes and Attitudes; Notes
• Publisher Details: London : Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.09; Drama -- Social aspects; Drama -- Political aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Drama -- Political aspects; Drama -- Social aspects; Politik; Theater; Philosophy -- Political; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social & political philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Sociology; Performing arts; Political science_xPhilosophy; Philosophy, modern; Political sociology; Performing Arts -- General; Dance & other performing arts; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349951000; 1349951005
• Related ISBNs: 9781349950997; 1349950998
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 1, 2017).
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