Theatricality and Performativity Writings on Texture from Plato's Cave to Urban Activism /

• Main Author: Paavolainen, Teemu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Performance Philosophy
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Aesthetics.; Philosophy.; Performing Arts.; History of Philosophy.

This book reinterprets theatricality and performativity through a dramaturgy of texture and weaving. As cultural metaphors, theatricality and performativity evoke practices of seeing and doing, but also conflicting values of novelty and normativity. With anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Ste...