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Enduramorphosis - Performance As Transformation Through Endurance

by Chelsea Coon

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 In this book, artist Chelsea Coon unfolds the theory of enduramorphosis, an emergent strangeness that arises in an endurance performance when the body is pushed to its limit and reacts.
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From Heidegger To Performance

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 Heidegger and PerformanceÂ explores convergences, direct or indirect, conscious or unconscious, between Heideggerâ€™s work and ideas of performance and performativity. The book's central provocation is to replace the word â€˜beingâ€™ with â€˜performanceâ€™ and interpret through Heidegger new ways of understanding both terms.
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Critical Introduction To Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona - Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher

by Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona

~~124,02€~~ 111,62€ 10% OFF

 The book is a compendium of select philosophical and literary writings by Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona spanning the first half of the twentieth century, from 1904 to 1946. It is the first English language edition to integrate his philosophical works, literary grotesques and select correspondences with a range of well-known contemporaries.
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Wittgenstein And Performance

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 This collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgensteinâ€™s writings across a diverse field of performance practices, including poetics and choreography, theatre, and psychotherapy, as well as reflections on political thought and ChatGPT.
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Wittgenstein And Performance

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 This collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgensteinâ€™s writings across a diverse field of performance practices, including poetics and choreography, theatre, and psychotherapy, as well as reflections on political thought and ChatGPT.
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Seeing As Practice - Philosophical Investigations Into The Relation Between Sight And Insight

by Eva Schuermann

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 It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework. Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way of disclosing the apparent, perceptible world, conditioned by individual and cultural variations.
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Politics Of Practice - A Rhetoric Of Performativity

by Lynette Hunter

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 This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers â€" Keith Hennessy, Ilya NoÃ©, Caro Novella, and duskin drum â€" to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse.
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Performance And The Disney Theme Park Experience - The Tourist As Actor

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 This book addresses Disney parks using performance theory. Certainly Disney presents a primary reading, but generations of critical theory have established the variety of reading strategies that interpreters can employ to read against the text.
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Pragmatist Philosophy And Dance - Interdisciplinary Dance Research In The American South

by Eric Mullis

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 Research for this work is interdisciplinary as it draws on studio practice, ethnographic field work, cultural history, Pentecostal history and theology, folk aesthetics, anthropological understandings of ecstatic religious rituals, and dance history regarding acclaimed works that have sought to present aspects of religious ecstasy on stage;
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Performing Citizenship - Bodies, Agencies, Limitations

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 This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory.
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From Heidegger To Performance

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 Heidegger and PerformanceÂ explores convergences, direct or indirect, conscious or unconscious, between Heideggerâ€™s work and ideas of performance and performativity. The book's central provocation is to replace the word â€˜beingâ€™ with â€˜performanceâ€™ and interpret through Heidegger new ways of understanding both terms.
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Experiments In Listening

by Rajni Shah

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 Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and the theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance.
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Recent Developments Of Soil Mechanics And Geotechnics In Theory And Practice

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 This book provides essential insights into recent developments in fundamental geotechnical engineering research.
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The Critical Introduction To Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona - Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher

by Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona

~~140,60€~~ 126,54€ 10% OFF

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 The book is a compendium of select philosophical and literary writings by Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona spanning the first half of the twentieth century, from 1904 to 1946. It is the first English language edition to integrate his philosophical works, literary grotesques and select correspondences with a range of well-known contemporaries.
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Experiments In Listening

by Rajni Shah

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 Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and the theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance.
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Object Of Comedy - Philosophies And Performances

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 <div><div>What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives - both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects.</div><div><br></div><div>In researching the object of comedy, the contributions gathered here encounter comedy as a philosophical object: instead of approaching comedy as a genre, the book engages with it as a language, a medium, an artifice, a weapon, a puzzle or a trouble, a vocation and a repetition. Thus philosophy meets comedy at the intersection of various fields (e.g. psychoanalysis, film studies, cultural studies, and performance studies) -regions that comical practices and theories in fact already traverse.</div></div>
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Framing Uncertainty - Computer Game Epistemologies

by Markus Rautzenberg

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 These texts reflect a decade of research in European computer game studies from a theoretical perspective that combines philosophy, cultural studies, visual studies, and media studies in a way that is unique to a specific type of media theory developed in Germany over the last thirty years.
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Framing Uncertainty - Computer Game Epistemologies

by Markus Rautzenberg

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 These texts reflect a decade of research in European computer game studies from a theoretical perspective that combines philosophy, cultural studies, visual studies, and media studies in a way that is unique to a specific type of media theory developed in Germany over the last thirty years.
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Pragmatist Philosophy And Dance - Interdisciplinary Dance Research In The American South

by Eric Mullis

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 Research for this work is interdisciplinary as it draws on studio practice, ethnographic field work, cultural history, Pentecostal history and theology, folk aesthetics, anthropological understandings of ecstatic religious rituals, and dance history regarding acclaimed works that have sought to present aspects of religious ecstasy on stage;
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Seeing As Practice - Philosophical Investigations Into The Relation Between Sight And Insight

by Eva Schuermann

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework. Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way of disclosing the apparent, perceptible world, conditioned by individual and cultural variations.
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Politics Of Practice - A Rhetoric Of Performativity

by Lynette Hunter

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers â€" Keith Hennessy, Ilya NoÃ©, Caro Novella, and duskin drum â€" to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse.
ENGLISH

Performance And The Disney Theme Park Experience - The Tourist As Actor

162,21€ + 10% CARD

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 This book addresses Disney parks using performance theory. Certainly Disney presents a primary reading, but generations of critical theory have established the variety of reading strategies that interpreters can employ to read against the text.
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Acting Queer - Gender Dissidence And The Subversion Of Realism

by Conrad Alexandrowicz

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 The book stimulates discussion among practitioners and scholars on matters concerning various kinds of diversity: of gender expression, of approaches to the teaching of acting, and to the way the art form may be imagined and executed in the early years of the 21st Century, in particular in the face of the climate crisis.
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Pragmatist Philosophy And Dance - Interdisciplinary Dance Research In The American South

by Eric Mullis

94,62€ + 10% CARD

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 Research for this work is interdisciplinary as it draws on studio practice, ethnographic field work, cultural history, Pentecostal history and theology, folk aesthetics, anthropological understandings of ecstatic religious rituals, and dance history regarding acclaimed works that have sought to present aspects of religious ecstasy on stage;
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