Foucault’S Theatres
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This book comes at a time when Foucault’s concerns with power, truth and knowledge could not be more pressing. So the focus here is on Foucault as a theatrical thinker. Taking the philosopher ‘at his word’, essays deploy the tropes and optics of theatre to examine Foucault’s own methods and the practices of governance and workings of power he made it his life’s work to engage with. Demonstrating different ways of responding to the question that underpinned so much of Foucault’s project: ‘What are the practices that permit the daily work of desubjugation?’ the possibilities voiced here could not be more pertinent; a fortification against the perils of the day.
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Jane Rendell, Professor of Critical Spatial Practice, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault's critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and advanced students encountering Foucault's work for the first time. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 264
- ISBN
- 9781526132062
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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This book comes at a time when Foucault’s concerns with power, truth and knowledge could not be more pressing. So the focus here is on Foucault as a theatrical thinker. Taking the philosopher ‘at his word’, essays deploy the tropes and optics of theatre to examine Foucault’s own methods and the practices of governance and workings of power he made it his life’s work to engage with. Demonstrating different ways of responding to the question that underpinned so much of Foucault’s project: ‘What are the practices that permit the daily work of desubjugation?’ the possibilities voiced here could not be more pertinent; a fortification against the perils of the day.
» .
Jane Rendell, Professor of Critical Spatial Practice, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.