“Flirting with Nash: Performing Capital and the Politics of Forgetting in Techno-economic Games” A key insight into the late Marxism of Adorno is Jameson’s insistence on the relevance of viewing capitalism through play among systems. The capitalist machine, however, is … Lire la suite
Le théâtre contemporain est-il cynique ou éthique ? Toute forme d’art ou d’activité humaine est sous-tendue par une philosophie, même si elle n’est pas explicite. Le théâtre contemporain britannique s’est longtemps inspiré d’une idéologie politique, dont le substrat philosophique était la … Lire la suite
“Karl Marx Staging ‘English’” In 1862 Karl Marx published in a Viennese newspaper a short article called « English » (the title was left in English in the original) that, among many things, discussed Shakespeare, the nature of individuality, the English painter … Lire la suite
The Art of Interview: Toward a Queer Performance of Philosophy « Everyone should partner up with the questioning other whose smile one cannot entirely decipher. » — Avital Ronell In « What is a Dispositif? » Gilles Deleuze makes an important, yet little discussed, … Lire la suite
… with Lowe, Daniel (British Library, London): Mimesis, Collaborative Encounter and the Ethnographic Sensibility: scenes from an impure discipline. Caroline (anthropologist / Eddie) and Daniel (historian / Princess) present continuities between performance and performativity and the process-practice of plasticity as … Lire la suite
Staging the Archival Baroque: Ben Rubin and Elevator Repair Service Bridge Philosophy and Performance I propose a paper that reflects on theories of the subject in relation to recent philosophical emphases on the baroque and the archive – the subject … Lire la suite
Slain by the theatre: philosophical encounters with metatheatrical corpses “Theatre, Performance, Philosophy” – the list that forms the title of this conference suggests an equilibrium between the three concepts that is far from stable. In fact, to think these three … Lire la suite
Rythme et présence dans un espace théâtral numérique La présente communication se veut le pendant théorique d’un travail artistique en cours à l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, où nous développons une pièce de théâtre faisant usage, certes, d’acteurs physiques, … Lire la suite
Performance, Participation, Collaboration: Reenactments and changes in regulative ideas. In this presentation, I discuss my post-doctoral work on Allan Kaprow’s retrospective Art as Life (2006-2008; Munich, Eindhoven, Bern, and Los Angeles), showing changes between historic performances since the 1960s and … Lire la suite
Wittgenstein and performance theory It is amazing how Wittgenstein ideas (especially the ones in his last books) have not known more theoretical developments (at least as vast as Deleuzian theories) in the domain of the performing arts. We propose to … Lire la suite
