Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance (Performance Interventions)
β Scribed by Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 258
- Series
- Performance interventions
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre,' metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age.Β It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world.
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