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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Paavolainen, Teemu (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Performance Philosophy
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Theatrical Metaphors, Textile Philosophies
• 2. Emptiness and Excess: The Cave, the Colonnade, and the Cube
• 3. Directorial Perspectives: The Image, the Platform, the Tightrope
• 4. "Revolving It All": Weaves of Memory in Amadeus and Footfalls
• 5. Smart Homes and Dwelling Machines: Function, Ornament, and Cognition
• 6. Protest in Colour and Concrete: Theatrical Textures in the Urban Fabric
• 7. Knots and Loose Ends: Cycles of Change, Metaphors of Range.