Comment Avital Ronell performe-t-elle la pensée ? Il s’agit, à partir des ouvrages traduits en français d’Avital Ronell, de mesurer à quel point la pensée philosophique gagne à être dramatisée, incarnée, parlée et de proposer une définition de la philo-performance, … Lire la suite
From Exodus to Creativity: The Performative War Machines of Alterglobalization Movements Through the first cycle of global resistance movement, the alterglobalization movement (1994-2003), a hot pot of social experimentation took shape. During this long decade, new forms of struggle and … Lire la suite
“Kx4l3ndj34r Katastronauci: How to Do Things with Worlds” Kx4l3ndj34r Katastronauci: How to Do Things with Worlds approaches the 1986 Challenger disaster through a specific constellation of historical, fictional, and philosophical materials in order to reflect on contemporary creativity and world- building across the … Lire la suite
Performance in Postmodern Culture, Milwaukee, 1977 : un colloque aux échos très contemporains. Le colloque américain de Milwaukee Performance in Postmodern Culture (1977, organisé par Michel Benamou) constitue un moment décisif dans la construction de la notion contemporaine de performance (entendue … Lire la suite
The Discourse on Theatre – Plato, Foucault and a Critical History of the Stage In The Drama of Ideas, Martin Puchner makes the case for re-evaluating the role that Plato plays in the formation of the modern European stage, proclaiming: … Lire la suite
“The Cube Project: Research in Object-Oriented Performance” The Cube Project uses performance to study the interaction of human beings and information through the language of philosophy. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Bruno Latour, N. Katherine Hayles, Judith Butler, Graham … Lire la suite
Philosophy and Aesthetics in Nigerian Drama: the Hagherian Experience Dramatists the world over have at different times attempted to seek deeper understanding of their respective societies using dramatic techniques that are unique to them as individuals with varying ideologies. In … Lire la suite
Performative Lecture: Praxis, Praxis! Exhibiting live and experimental performance presents several challenges interesting to both philosophers and practitioners. Outlining those challenges from the practitioners’ viewpoint, namely that of organizers and curators from Dimanche Rouge, Praxis, Praxis! advocates for a close dialog … Lire la suite
Mimesis Restored: Can Performance Studies Offer a New Epistemological Perspective for the Humanities? Interactions among the arts are dramatically increasing today, challenging academic views which formerly strictly separated one realm from the other. Beyond the idea of the work of … Lire la suite
Théâtralité du pragmatisme : la persona chez Gertrude Stein et George Herbert Mead La rencontre entre philosophie et théâtre dans la pensée étatsunienne contemporaine met en scène les deux figures cardinales que sont Gertrude Stein et George Herbert Mead. L’écriture dramatique … Lire la suite
