Performance Philosophy
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This introductory chapter outlines theatricality and performativity by way of their tensions and paradoxes – between seeing and doing, novelty and normativity – and argues for a more perspectival approach with notions of ‘texture,’... more
Rozhovor pro časopis Host s Janem Němcem o útoku na Kapitol, filosofických stereotypech, myšlení ve spojení s tělesnou zkušeností, uměním, štěstím, traumatem a odpovědností.
By asking if "performance philosophy" would be per se pragmatist, I intend to interrogate performance philosophy's specificities through three perspectives. At first, I will show the formal similarities between James' pragmatism as a... more
Emerging only in the 1980s, the complex assemblage of critical Disability studies and theatre studies is still a developing field. There are not enough scholars doing this work, and, with accessible performances only recently becoming... more
Print und PDF hier: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4239-1/das-denken-der-buehne/ Theater und Philosophie – dieser Band vereint erstmals zwei paradigmatische, historische Konstellationen: zum einen jene von der Zusammenarbeit... more
in: Jamie Sexton, Ernest Mathijs (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema
The ubiquity of "crisis" and its sheer pervasiveness as a description of the contemporary world means that we do not so much write about crisis as much as we write from crisis. What type of thought is possible within crisis? If... more
The notion of the 'philosophy of x', which has recently tended to become part of many subjects, from music to management, tends to obscure a range of important issues. The idea behind it seems to be that, by designating one's reflections... more
This chapter locates the practice-inspired approach to rhythm of choreographer and movement-thinker Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) in the wider context of critical theory focusing on rhythm and rhyth-manalysis. In doing so, its aim is both to... more
La présente publication s'attache à saisir la diversité de la syncope dans les arts contemporains. Elle assemble des écrits, en langue française et anglaise, de théoriciens et d'artistes venant rythmer et élargir la réflexion lancée lors... more
You are called upon to perform a play. You will be performing the role of the audience, playwright, director, and actor. The text will be performing all of those roles as well. It is left in your hands to determine who is the understudy... more
artist pages with interviews
* This text is derived from a Visual Intelligence presentation given at Lewis & Clark College in the spring of 2017 * Through Interdisciplinary-Aesthetics, an argument is made utilizing an Atraudian/Deleuzian conception of the "Body... more
This article begins by examining the phenomenon of the deus ex machina in the modern theatre, in particular in Brecht's and Hauptmann's Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera, 1928). The transformations of this work into the film... more
This is a transcript of an unpublished talk presented in Frankfurt in November 2015. The paper draws from the principles of François Laruelle's non-standard philosophy to develop a critique of recent philosophies of theatre, both analytic... more
In this article I reinterpret Plato’s allegory of the cave as dramatizing democracy’s dependency on slave labor. Doing so, I argue that Plato allegorizes not the birth of the philosopher, as in the dominant readings of the allegory, but... more
V této knize mapuje Alice Koubová kontext performativního obratu ve filosofii a zkoumá principy a důsledky, které z něho plynou. Nedělá to pouze pomocí analýzy konkrétní tematické oblasti, ale hledá a zpřesňuje zároveň specifický styl... more
The question of attention in theatre remains relatively unexplored. In redressing this, Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focussing on four core aural phenomena in theatre -... more
Conference with Bruce Brown, Bojana Kunst, Kent Sjöström, Julian Klein and Teemu Mäki. The central question of this conference is what methodological approaches producing knowledge shall be used within artistic research in order to... more
Cet article décrit le domaine qui s'étend entre ce qu'on pourrait appeler la théâtrophilosophie (l'étude de la philosophie à travers le théâtre) et la philosophie du théâtre (l'étude du théâtre à travers la philosophie). Il permet... more
This text is an attempt to make an ontological analysis of American choreographer Deborah Hay's (1941-) 'performance practice' and to reflect its significance for the dance of the 2000-2020s. It bases its argumentation on the writer's... more
Answering the call of Alun Munslow, Robert Rosenstone and others for post-linguistic turn philosophy of history to look beyond language as, to quote Munslow, ‘rather restricting as a medium for engaging with the past’, this paper proposes... more
Western philosophical traditions from Descartes on have been haunted by an intellectualist thesis which centers the unique capacities of the human in an interior mental life. This particular feature of the human separates it in kind... more
We are always in atmospheres. Every where has, is an atmosphere. We are always affected by atmosphere, more or less consciously, more or less intensively. A crowded street, an open field, night, a moment of anticipatory tension, a... more
Μελέτη που εξετάζει τον ρόλο που μπορεί να διαδραματίσει η θεατρική τέχνη στην καλλιέργεια της παιδείας τον 21ο αιώνα. Με αφετηρία τη θεωρία περί θεατρικού ενστίκτου του Nicolas Evreinov και τις αναλύσεις γύρω από το ριζικό φαντασιακό της... more
Εξετάζεται η θέση της σκηνοθεσίας καθ’ εαυτήν στη σύγχρονη μεταμοντέρνα συνθήκη. Το διακύβευμα της σκηνοθεσίας ως μηχανισμού αναπαράστασης του κόσμου μέσω της δύναμης της μεταφοράς συνυφαίνεται με ένα πλήθος ζητημάτων που αφορούν στην... more
Αναπτύσσεται με ένα λεπτομερές «ερωτηματολόγιο ανάλυσης» για έλεγχο και αυτοέλεγχο της θεατρικής κριτικής (πού γράφει, για ποιον γράφει, πώς αρθρώνει την κριτική του, με ποιο ύφος, με ποια ιδεολογία, με ποιες επιστημονικές ή μεθοδολογικές... more
During the last twenty years, there has been a slow but increasing proliferation of scholars and practitioners employing phenomenological methodologies in the study of performance. is is symptomatic of a desire to escape from overly... more
בקורס ״לחשוב מהגוף - מחוויה חושית ליצירה״ נעסוק ביצירה הנובעת מן החושים. הפילוסוף מוריס מרלו-פונטי הגדיר והבהיר את הגוף כמדיום המכונן עבורנו את הידיעה. בהשראת מרלו-פונטי ותיאוריות אחרות העוסקות בגוף כמקור למחשבה ולגילום תרבותי, נבדוק... more
Performing within and as a Cybernetic flow of information development, this interdisciplinary and experimental work identifies the manipulations of Time executed through both the 19th century occult-organization the Theosophical Society... more
Συγκεντρώνονται οι γενικευτικές αποφάνσεις από τριάντα πέντε δραματικά έργα του Καμπανέλλη, με θεματικές αναφορές από κάθε σχεδόν περιοχή των ανθρωπιστικών και κοινωνικών επιστημών: το θέατρο και η κοινωνική του εμβέλεια, η κοινωνία και η... more
The three centuries since the European Enlightenment have manifest rapid developments for both Science and technology. These developments have been accelerated by and proliferated across the socioeconomic structure of Capitalism. Evolving... more
τίθεται το φιλοσοφικό ερώτημα του υποκειμένου και της ταυτότητας μέσα από ένα θεατρολογικό πρίσμα. Εξετάζεται κατ’ αρχάς η αφηγηματική και η εθική συνιστώσα στην κατανόηση του εαυτού, δηλαδή το γεγονός ότι ερμηνεύουμε τη ζωή μας ως μια... more
αρχίζει με την αμφισβήτηση του παλαιού δόγματος που θέλει τον Πλάτωνα έναν ορκισμένο εχθρό του θεάτρου, υποστηρίζοντας ότι ο φιλόσοφος προσπάθησε να δημιουργήσει μια εναλλακτική δραματική φόρμα, τον σωκρατικό διάλογο, ο οποίος... more
As an aesthetic work of Performance Philosophy, this text both presents and performs a theory of Postmodern Aesthetics as a method for the ritualistic Fictioning of reality. Developing out of the works of Artaud, Deleuze, and... more
Version pre-print de l’article paru sous le titre « La dramatisation entre Gilles Deleuze et Etienne Souriau : tactiques de mise en scène dans la création philosophique », dans Gilles Deleuze, politiques de la philosophie, éd. Adnen Jdey,... more
Theatre Journal 45 (1993): 443-60.
Αναπτύσσονται οι θέσεις του φιλοσόφου για την αττική τραγωδία και το πολιτικό της υπόβαθρο. Η τραγωδία για τον Καστοριάδη δεν είναι απλώς ένα είδος στο οποίο γράφτηκαν ορισμένα από τα αριστουργήματα της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας, αλλά μια... more
I propose the constellation “Nietzsche and Haiti” for a decolonial reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution as an emancipatory destiny. Inspired by Buck-Morss’ “Hegel and Haiti,” my refusal to sever Haiti from the history of western... more
This article aims to show how Fernand Deligny’s thought and practices with autistic children, as well as his impact on Deleuze and Guattari, offer a paradigm of subjectivity that in turn rests upon an aesthetic and political account of... more
From an edited collection that brings together an internationally known and interdisciplinary group of scholars (including François Laruelle himself) who use non-philosophy to cross the boundaries between philosophy and performance, this... more
A Tese apresenta as forças de expressão e criação do pensamento manifesto nos corpos dos performers contemporâneos. Desdobrando-se em montagens cênicas que compuseram a pesquisa, passando por salas de aula e de ensaio, obras teatrais e... more