[D-G] New Book: "Deleuze and Performance"
Cull, Laura
lkc202 at exeter.ac.uk
Fri Jun 19 07:35:24 PDT 2009
New book: Deleuze and Performance (Deleuze Connections Series,
Edinburgh University Press)
OUT NOW
Deleuze and Performance, edited and introduced by Laura Cull,
Edinburgh University Press (June 2009)
Deleuze and Performance
Edited by Laura Cull
June 2009, Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748635047
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deleuze-Performance-Connections-Laura-Cull/dp/0748635041/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244401427&sr=8-1
Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to
performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What
are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process
and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in which many continue
to privilege the notion of performance as representation, as anchored
by its imitation of an identity: 'the world', 'the play', 'the self'?
Deleuze and Performance is a collection of new essays dedicated to
Deleuze's writing on theatre and to the productivity of his
philosophy for (re)thinking performance. This book provides rigorous
analyses of Deleuze's writings on theatre practitioners such as
Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene, as well as offering innovative
readings of historical and contemporary performance including
performance art, dance, new media performance, theatre and opera,
which use Deleuze's concepts in exciting new ways. Can philosophy
follow Deleuze in overcoming the antitheatrical tradition embedded in
its history, perhaps even reconsidering what it means to think in the
light of the embodied insights of performance's practitioners?
Experts from the fields of Performance Studies and Deleuze Studies
come together in this volume and strive to examine these and other
issues in a manner that will be challenging, yet accessible to
students and established scholars alike.
Contents
Introduction - Laura Cull
Chapter 1: Performing in the Chaosmos: Farts, Follicles, Mathematics,
and Delirium in Deleuze - Herbert Blau
Chapter 2: I Artaud BwO: The Uses of Artaud¹s To have Done with the
judgement of God Edward Scheer
Chapter 3: Expression and Affect in Kleist, Beckett, and Deleuze -
Anthony Uhlmann
Chapter 4: A Theatre of Subtractive Extinction: Bene without Deleuze
- Lorenzo Chiesa
Chapter 5: Performing, Strolling, Thinking: From Minor Literature to
Theatre of the Future - Daniel Watt and Off the beaten path or, notes
towards a Heideggerian deterritorialization: a response to Daniel
Watt - Julian Wolfreys
Chapter 6: Becoming a Citizen of the World: Deleuze between Allan
Kaprow and Adrian Piper - Stephen Zepke
Chapter 7: sub specie durationis - Matthew Goulish and Laura Cull
Chapter 8: Thinking through Theatre - Maaike Bleeker
Chapter 9: BecomingDinosaur: Collective Process and Movement
Aesthetics - Anna Hickey-Moody
Chapter 10: of butterflies, bodies and biograms Affective spaces in
performativities in the performance of Madama Butterfly - Barbara
Kennedy
Chapter 11: Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance à Digital Deleuze
- Timothy Murray
Chapter 12: Performance as the Distribution of Life: From Aeschylus
to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari - Andrew Murphie
Chapter 13: The minor¹ arithmetic of rhythm: imagining digital
technologies for dance - Stamatia Portanova
Laura Cull is Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at Northumbria
University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She is also an artist, exhibiting
internationally as an individual and as a member of the collective,
SpRoUt.
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