Inter Views in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and Conversations

✍ Scribed by Anna Street, Julien Alliot, Magnolia Pauker (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Performance Philosophy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a glimpse of new perspectives on how philosophy performs in the gaps between thinking and acting. Bringing together perspectives from world-renowned contemporary philosophers and theorists – including Judith Butler, Alphonso Lingis, Catherine Malabou, Jon McKenzie, Martin Puchner, and Avital Ronell – this book engages with the emerging field of performance philosophy, exploring the fruitful encounters being opened across disciplines by this constantly evolving approach. Intersecting dramatic techniques with theoretical reflections, scholars from diverse geographical and institutional locations come together to trace the transfers between French theory and contemporary Anglo-American philosophical and performance practices in order to challenge conventional approaches to knowledge. Through the crossings of different voices and views, the reader will be led to explore the in-between territories where performance meets traditionally philosophical tools and mediums, such as writing, discipline, plasticity, politics, or care.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Genealogies of Performance Philosophy (Anna Street, Magnolia Pauker, Julien Alliot)....Pages 3-22
The Philosophical Interview: Queer(y)ing Performance (Magnolia Pauker)....Pages 23-36
Front Matter ....Pages 37-37
Scenes of Instruction (Martin Puchner)....Pages 39-49
Stories from the In-Between: Performing Philosophy Alongside the Unknown (Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca)....Pages 51-56
From Corpse to Corpus: Excavating Bodies of Theatrical Self-Reflection (Ramona Mosse)....Pages 57-67
Performative Disruptions and the Transformation of Writing (Martin Puchner, Anna Street)....Pages 69-76
Front Matter ....Pages 77-77
Ouisconsin Eidos, Wisconsin Idea, and the Closure of Ideation (Jon McKenzie)....Pages 79-95
Inter Faces: Remapping Sights of Knowledge (Anna Street)....Pages 97-106
Performative Disciplinarity in Alternate Reality Games from Foucault to McKenzie and Beyond (Natasha Lushetich)....Pages 107-116
Philosophical Interruptions and Post-Ideational Genres: Thinking Beyond Literacy (Jon McKenzie, Anna Street)....Pages 117-124
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
Power and Performance at Play: A Question of Life or Death (Catherine Malabou)....Pages 127-137
The Animal Way: On Malabou’s Deconstructed Life (John Ó Maoilearca)....Pages 139-143
Biological Plasticity and Performative Possibility in the Work of Catherine Malabou and Curious (Katie Schaag)....Pages 145-159
Thresholds of Resistance: Between Plasticity and Flexibility (Catherine Malabou, Julien Alliot, Anna Street)....Pages 161-168
Front Matter ....Pages 169-169
When Gesture Becomes Event (Judith Butler)....Pages 171-191
Framing Performance Philosophy through the Proscenium (Freddie Rokem)....Pages 193-204
Subjects of Subversion: Rancière and Butler on the Aesthetics of Politics (Clare Woodford)....Pages 205-217
The Scene of Philosophy (Judith Butler, Magnolia Pauker)....Pages 219-225
Front Matter ....Pages 227-227
Ach! The History of a Complaint (Avital Ronell)....Pages 229-245
Ach? Ah! Whatever…The Invention of “BOF-ology” (Alice Lagaay)....Pages 247-254
Performing Stupidity (Sara Baranzoni)....Pages 255-266
Philosophical Proving Grounds (Avital Ronell, Magnolia Pauker)....Pages 267-276
Front Matter ....Pages 277-277
Irrevocable Loss (Alphonso Lingis)....Pages 279-299
Performing with Care: Reading with Alphonso Lingis (Sam Kolodezh)....Pages 301-307
On Performance and the Dramaturgy of Caring (Rebecca M. Groves)....Pages 309-318
Performing Care: Exploring Rituals, Demands and Otherness (Alphonso Lingis, Julien Alliot)....Pages 319-324
Front Matter ....Pages 325-325
Performance Knots: Crossed Threads of Anglo-American Thought and French Theory (David Zerbib, Julien Alliot, Magnolia Pauker, Anna Street)....Pages 327-337
Back Matter ....Pages 339-351

✦ Subjects

Theatre and Performance Studies