Performing Antagonism

Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy

Tony Fisher, Eve Katsouraki, Tony Fisher, Eve Katsouraki

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Anno: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781349951000
• Argomento: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Categoria: Artes escénicas

This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street.

Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and performance practitioners. However, a decade of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the eruption of new social movements around the world, the growth of anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation struggles, the upsurge of protests against the blockades of neoliberalism, and the rising tide of dissent and anger against corporate power, with its exorbitant social costs, have left theatre and performance scholarship confronting something of a dilemma: how to theorize the political antagonisms of our day? Drawing on the resources of 'post-Marxist' political thinkers such as Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière, the book explores how new theoretical horizons have been made available for performance analysis.

Indice dei contenuti

• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Performance and the Tragic Politics of the Agōn
• Chapter 2: Tragedy’s Philosophy
• Chapter 3: Tragedy: Maternity, Natality, Theatricality
• Chapter 4: Parterre: Olympic Wrestling, National Identities, and the Theatre of Agonism
• Chapter 5: ‘An Actor, But in Life’: Spectatorial Consciousness and Materialist Theatre: Some Notes Apropos Althusser
• Chapter 6: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics
• Chapter 7: Performing Protest: Occupation, Antagonism and Radical Democracy
• Chapter 8: A Life Not Worth Living: On the Economy of Vulnerability and Powerlessness in Political Suicide
• Chapter 9: Collective Horizons: Rethinking the Performative and Political: (Im)Possibilities of Being Together
• Chapter 10: On the Performance of ‘Dissensual Speech’
• Chapter 11: Remote Spectating: Drone Images and the Spectacular Image of Revolt
• Chapter 12: Antagonising the Limits of Critique
• Chapter 13: The Political Dimension of Dance: Mouffe’s Theory of Agonism and Choreography
• Chapter 14: The Art of Unsolicited Participation
• Chapter 15: Epilogue: The ‘Trojan Horse’—Or, from Antagonism to the Politics of Resilience
• Bibliography
• Index