Wittgenstein and Performance
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Wittgenstein and Performance

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Wittgenstein and Performance

About this book

Embodying Wittgenstein's own aphorism of "you'd be surprised," this collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgenstein'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.
Fundamentally, the collection shifts the discussion of philosophy and performance away from the well-established distinction between Analytic and Continental traditions to offer examples of Wittgenstein's inspiration in and for the different practices that are explored in each essay. Between Wittgenstein's proposals in the Tractatus that "the world is all that is the case" and in the Philosophical Investigations that "words are also deeds," how might the thought of philosophical questions already inform those of and for performance? How do conceptions of the limits of the one articulate those of the other? And how might such questions be not simply a matter of philosophy or performance alone, but indeed of and for performance philosophy?
Contributors: NĂ© Barros, Charles Bernstein, Simon Bowes, Jonathan Burrows, Miles Champion, Will Daddario, Veronika Darida, Françoise Davoine, Peter S. Dillard, Signe Gjessing, Kenneth Goldsmith, Derek Gottlieb, Anthony Howell, Sam Kinchin-Smith, Alice Lagaay, Sue MacLaine, Ray Monk, Bernard MĂŒller, Marjorie Perloff, Tom Raworth, Max Richter, Bo Tarenskeen, The Aesthetics Group (Dublin), Mischa Twitchin, Lukas M. Verburgt, Peter Verburgt.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Wittgenstein and Performance
  7. Chapter 1: Familiarity in Gesture: An Encounter between Dance and Wittgenstein’s Thought
  8. Chapter 2: Pataquerulous Wittgenstein (and the Animaladies of Language)1
  9. Chapter 3: ‘The Possibility of Fact’: Sketching an Origin for the Performative
  10. Chapter 4: The More One Looks . . .
  11. Chapter 5: The Stage of Thoughts: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Josef Nadj
  12. Chapter 6: Encountering Wittgenstein
  13. Chapter 7: ‘I’ll Teach You Differences’: Wittgenstein against Philosophical Pseudo-Performance
  14. Chapter 8: Conversation between Signe Gjessing, Sam Kinchin-Smith, Ray Monk, and Max Richter
  15. Chapter 9: Always One Sentence on Every Page Allowed My Mind to Flower
  16. Chapter 10: The Fibres, the Fly Bottle, and the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein’s Figuration of Politics
  17. Chapter 11: Ethics Is Aesthetics
  18. Chapter 12: Let the Use of the Words Teach You Their Meaning
  19. Chapter 13: Reading Jean Bazin with Wittgenstein: Playing Chess or Making Custard?
  20. Chapter 14: The Odd Couple: Duchamp and Wittgenstein
  21. Chapter 15: On Performing Wittgenstein
  22. Chapter 16: Wittgenstein’s Use of the Tableau Vivant: Proposition and Group Performance
  23. Chapter 17: Philosophical Problems and Stochastic Parrots: Between Aphorism and Algorithm
  24. Chapter 18: Wittgenstein Incorporated: Peter Verburgt in conversation with Lukas M. Verburgt
  25. Index
  26. About the Contributors