Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction: A willing suspension of disbelief for the moment......Page 16
Part I: Simulation (before): A theoretical accounting of the history of the (dis)appearance of theatre in virtual spaces......Page 28
1 The screen test of the double: The uncanny performer in the space of technology......Page 30
2 Televisual performance: Openness to the mystery......Page 45
3 Posthuman and postorganic performance: The (dis)appearance of theatre in virtual spaces......Page 62
4 Perspectiva artificialis: The duplicitious geographies of stage illusions, or the not-so-splendid isolation of the actor on the early modern perspective stage and in the historical avant-garde......Page 83
5 The ruins of illusion: Theatre in the rise of the virtual and the fall of illusion......Page 106
6 The aesthetics of disappearance and the politics of visibility......Page 120
Part II: Embeddedness (after): The performance of ‘bare life’ and the bio-politics of digital culture......Page 140
7 Stealing from God: The crisis of creation in Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Genesi and Eduardo Kac’s Genesis......Page 142
8 From simulation to embeddedness: Aestheticizing politics and the performance of ‘bare life’......Page 165
9 The theatre and its negative: Event, truth and the void......Page 195
Notes......Page 211
Works cited......Page 213
Index......Page 220