Performance and Posthumanism: Staging Prototypes of Composite Bodies (1st ed. 2021)

By: Christel Stalpaert and Kristof Van Baarle and Laura Karreman

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Synopsis: Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a condition that has already long been upon us. We have entered a posthuman era, an assertion shared by an increasing number of thinkers such as N. Katherine Hayles, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Richard Grusin, and Bernard Stiegler. The performing arts have reacted to these developments by increasingly opening up their traditionally ‘human’ domain to non-human others. Both philosophy and performing arts thus question what it means to be human from a posthumanist point of view and how the agency of non-humans – be they technology, objects, animals, or other forms of being – ‘works’ on both an ontological and performative level. The contributions in this volume brings together scholars, dramaturgs, and artists, uniting their reflections on the consequences of the posthuman condition for creative practices, spectatorship, and knowledge.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030747459
Related ISBNs:: 9783030747442
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 10/04/21
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Christel Stalpaert
Edited by:: Kristof van Baarle
Edited by:: Laura Karreman