ABSTRACT
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.
The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio and the Wooster Group, the book positions theatre and performance in technoculture and articulates the processes of aesthetics, metaphysics and politics.
This wide-ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|111 pages
Simulation (before)
chapter 3|21 pages
Posthuman and postorganic performance
chapter 4|23 pages
Perspectiva artificialis
chapter 6|19 pages
The aesthetics of disappearance and the politics of visibility
part II|71 pages
Embeddedness (after)
