Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama (New Materialisms)

Fraunhofer, Hedwig

Edinburgh University Press（2020/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474467438
• DDC分類 809.20094

Full Description

Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies - nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre.
She specifically reworks the biopolitical exclusions that mark modern western epistemology, leading up to modernity's totalitarian crisis point.
Fraunhofer reveals the performativity of theatre in its double sense - as theatrical production and as the intra-activity of a dynamic system of multiple relations between human and more-than-human actors, energies and affects. In modern theatre, public and private, human and more-than-human, materiality and meaning collapse in a common life.

Contents

Introduction: Anxious Flesh

Part I: Copenhagen and Paris, ca. 1889: Economies of Excess

1. Posthumanism and Gender, or The Fall Back into Nature

2. Death and Community, or Metaphors and Materiality

Part II: Munich and Paris, 1918 to 1943: Encounters with Fascism

3. Bare Life, or Becoming-Animal

4. Flies vs. the Fetishisation of Consciousness

5. Artaud and the Plague: A Posthumanist Theatre?

6. Where Does the Body End? Artaud's MaterialSymbolic Theatre

Conclusion

Bibliography