Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
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Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology

Performance Apophatics

  1. 309 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology

Performance Apophatics

About this book

Ideas about negativity, emptiness, nothingness, and disappearance have maintained great theoretical currency in the field of performance theory. Performance Apophatics argues that performance is often an ethical injunction against what it would know or seek to make known. The book explicates texts, performances, and theories of performance as negative epistemologies that encounter the unknown through the known, drawing from literature in theology and apophatic spirituality for guides and examples.

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Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137520432
eBook ISBN
9781137520449

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Performance Apophatics
  5. Chapter 2 Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
  6. Chapter 3 Intercultural Performance and the Apophatics of Appropriation
  7. Chapter 4 An Apophatics of the Archive: In Memoriam Reverend Doctor Florence Li Tim-Oi
  8. Chapter 5 The Playwright as Negative Theologian: James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner and Blues for Mister Charlie
  9. Chapter 6 The Apophatics of the Object: Icon and Community
  10. Chapter 7 Conclusion: Learned Ignorance and Performative Unknowing: Unselfing the Self, Unworlding the World
  11. Afterword: Negative Epistemology in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

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