A Public Reading and Discussion curated by Ben Hjorth Amphithéâtre Richelieu Université Paris-Sorbonne 2pm, Thursday 26 June 2013 Download a fuller description of the staged reading in PDF CAST Antigone: Avital Ronell Ismene sister of Antigone: Elisabeth Angel-Perez Kreon king of Thebes: Judith Butler … Lire la suite
You might need your own shuttle to navigate the broad constellation Jon McKenzie presents in his book Perform or Else (Routledge, 2001). His critical analysis of current-day performance culture spans not only cultural and performance studies in academia, but also the … Lire la suite
What-There-Is: Theater as Method, Theory as Theater Even as performativity is invoked to counter impasses in philosophy, queer studies, science and technology studies, history, and literary theory, theorists are quick to differentiate between processual performativity and representationalist theater. As Shannon … Lire la suite
Interview questions for the TPP website around Freddie Rokem’s book Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance (Stanford UP, 2010) Flore Garcin-Marrou: In your introduction, you mention that the relation between cultural studies and critical theory is nurtured by what Anglo-Americans call … Lire la suite
Head of the Digital Humanities Initiative and Director of DesignLab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Jon McKenzie is a front-runner in the digital revolution of academia. Leading the charge to transform traditional practices of presentation into cutting-edge performance pieces, … Lire la suite
Martin Puchner has a track record of border crossings – in life as much as in his prolific academic career. Born and raised in Germany, he exchanged his undergraduate student life at the University of Konstanz for the University of … Lire la suite
One of America’s most renowned philosophers, Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. … Lire la suite
Catherine Malabou is one of France’s leading philosophers, currently visiting professor at the University of Kingston’s Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy. A seminar entitled Plasticity and Form indicates the guiding thread of her research: the concept of plasticity … Lire la suite
Catherine Malabou est une philosophe française, actuellement professeure en détachement à l’université de Kingston au sein du Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy. Un cours intitulé Plasticité et Forme porte notamment sur son sujet de prédilection : le concept de plasticité et la possibilité … Lire la suite
