Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject

Matthew Causey is Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

This book discusses the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. The essays pose questions about identity and the subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, visiting visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and performance to investigate questions about representation, metaphysics, and politics.

Introduction: Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh Part I: Positioning the Neo-Political Subject 1. Bloody Thought Herb Blau 2. ID/entity: the Subject's Own Taking Place Matthew Causey and Gabriella Calchi Novati Part II: A/Semiotic Directions 3. The Theatre of Thought Patricia MacCormack 4. Performance, the Field Body, and Zombies in Societies of Entrainment David Fancy 5. The Fugitive Theatre of Romeo Castellucci: Intermedial Refractions and Fractalactic Occurrences Bryan Reynolds and Adam Bryx 6. The Post-subjective Body, Or Deleuze and Guattari Meet Romeo Castellucci Audron¿ Žukauskait¿ Part III: Collaborative Practice, Collective Action 7. A Diluted Manifesto Lin Hixson, Matthew Goulish, and Laura Cull 8. Being Janez Janša' Maaike Bleeker 9. The Bone's Pirouette: Dance, Identity and Energy Petra Kuppers 10. Dance and the Event: John Jasperse's Giant Empty and the Disclosure of Being as Time Nigel Stewart Part IV: Performing Along and Outside the Borders of Identity 11. Temporary Legitimacy: Queer Possibilities in Digital Performance Stephen Greer 12. Affective Presents/Effective Presence: Intensity, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child Joshua Abrahams 13. The Matter of Queer Politics and Ethics: Antony Hegarty and The Crying Light Fintan Walsh 14. Reflective Viewing: ORLAN's Hybridized Harlequin, Banksy, Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 15. Palestine and Political Invention Maurya Wickstrom