Deleuze and Performance

Laura Cull

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

Deleuze and Performance

Laura Cull

In the series Deleuze Connections

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748635054

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About this book

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.

Laura Cull is a PhD candidate in Drama at the University of Exeter, a part time lecturer in Performance at Northumbria University and Chair of the PSi Performance and Philosophy working group. She is also an artist, exhibiting internationally as an individual and as a member of the collective, SpRoUt.

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Introduction Laura Cull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Performing in the Chaosmos: Farts, Follicles, Mathematics and Delirium in Deleuze Herbert Blau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
ACT I Deleuze on Theatre: Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene
Chapter 2 I Artaud BwO: The Uses of Artaud’s To have done with the judgement of god Edward Scheer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3 Expression and Affect in Kleist, Beckett and Deleuze Anthony Uhlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter 4 A Theatre of Subtractive Extinction: Bene Without Deleuze Lorenzo Chiesa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Interval
Chapter 5 Performing, Strolling, Thinking: From Minor Literature to Theatre of the Future Daniel Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Off the Beaten Path or, Notes Towards a Heideggerian Deterritorialisation: A Response to Daniel Watt Julian Wolfreys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
ACT II Confronting Deleuze and Live Performance
Chapter 6 Becoming a Citizen of the World: Deleuze Between Allan Kaprow and Adrian Piper Stephen Zepke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 7 sub specie durationis Matthew Goulish and Laura Cull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 8 Thinking Through Theatre Maaike Bleeker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 9 Becoming–Dinosaur: Collective Process and Movement Aesthetics Anna Hickey-Moody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Interval
Chapter 10 . . . of butterfl ies, bodies and biograms . . . Affective Spaces in Performativities in the Performance of Madama Butterfly Barbara Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
ACT III A Digital Deleuze: Performance and New Media
Chapter 11 Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance à Digital Deleuze Timothy Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chapter 12 Performance as the Distribution of Life: From Aeschylus to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari Andrew Murphie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 13 The ‘Minor’ Arithmetic of Rhythm: Imagining Digital Technologies for Dance Stamatia Portanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 4 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: May 21, 2009
ISBN: 9780748635054