Politics of Practice: A Rhetoric of Performativity

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This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noé, Caro Novella, and duskin drum – to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse. The first part of the book makes a case for the political work done alongside discourse by performers practising with materials that are not-known, in ways that are directly relevant to people carrying out their daily lives. In the second part of the book, four case study chapters circle around figures of irresolvable paradox – hendiadys, enthymeme, anecdote, allegory – that gesture to what is not-known, to study strategies for processes of becoming, knowing and valuing. These figures also shape some elements of these performances that make up a suggested rhetorical stance for performativity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 The Sociocultural and the Sociosituated (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 13-44 The Alongside (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 45-68 Sustaining Sociosituated Performativity with Collaboration (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 69-93 Transition—Critical Reflections (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 95-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger and Turbulence (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 105-144 Ilya Noé’s Deerwalk (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 145-179 Caro Novella’s parèntesi and Resistencias Sonoras (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 181-213 duskin drum, Selections from Performance Artmaking (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 215-243 Completed Notes: Finding Critical Form (Lynette Hunter)....Pages 245-250 Back Matter ....Pages 251-278