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Title
Theatricality and performativity : writings on texture from Plato's cave to urban activism / Teemu Paavolainen.
ISBN
9783319732268
3319732269
3319732250
9783319732251
3319732250
9783319732251
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIII, 286 pages) : 7 illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-73226-8 doi
9783319732251
Call Number
PN2039 .P255 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
790
Summary
This book reinterprets theatricality and performativity through a dramaturgy of texture and weaving. As cultural metaphors, theatricality and performativity evoke practices of seeing and doing, but also conflicting values of novelty and normativity. With anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C. Pepper, this study explores a series of intertwining threads, from the theatrical to the performative: Antitheatrical (Plato, the Baroque, Michael Fried); Pro-theatrical (directors Wagner, Fuchs, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Brook); Dramatic (weaving memory in Shaffer's Amadeus and Beckett's Footfalls); Efficient (from modernist "machines for living in" to the "smart home"); Activist (knit graffiti, clown patrols, and the Anthropo(s)cene). An approach is developed in which 'performativity' names the way we tacitly weave worlds and identities, variously concealed or clarified by the step-aside tactics of 'theatricality'.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Performance philosophy.
Available in Other Form
Printed edition: 9783319732251
1. Introduction: Theatrical Metaphors, Textile Philosophies
2. Emptiness and Excess: The Cave, the Colonnade, and the Cube
3. Directorial Perspectives: The Image, the Platform, the Tightrope
4. "Revolving It All": Weaves of Memory in Amadeus and Footfalls
5. Smart Homes and Dwelling Machines: Function, Ornament, and Cognition
6. Protest in Colour and Concrete: Theatrical Textures in the Urban Fabric
7. Knots and Loose Ends: Cycles of Change, Metaphors of Range.
