Inter Views in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and Conversations

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This book offers a glimpse of new perspectives on how philosophy performs in the gaps between thinking and acting. Bringing together perspectives from world-renowned contemporary philosophers and theorists – including Judith Butler, Alphonso Lingis, Catherine Malabou, Jon McKenzie, Martin Puchner, and Avital Ronell – this book engages with the emerging field of performance philosophy, exploring the fruitful encounters being opened across disciplines by this constantly evolving approach. Intersecting dramatic techniques with theoretical reflections, scholars from diverse geographical and institutional locations come together to trace the transfers between French theory and contemporary Anglo-American philosophical and performance practices in order to challenge conventional approaches to knowledge. Through the crossings of different voices and views, the reader will be led to explore the in-between territories where performance meets traditionally philosophical tools and mediums, such as writing, discipline, plasticity, politics, or care. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Genealogies of Performance Philosophy (Anna Street, Magnolia Pauker, Julien Alliot)....Pages 3-22 The Philosophical Interview: Queer(y)ing Performance (Magnolia Pauker)....Pages 23-36 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 Scenes of Instruction (Martin Puchner)....Pages 39-49 Stories from the In-Between: Performing Philosophy Alongside the Unknown (Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca)....Pages 51-56 From Corpse to Corpus: Excavating Bodies of Theatrical Self-Reflection (Ramona Mosse)....Pages 57-67 Performative Disruptions and the Transformation of Writing (Martin Puchner, Anna Street)....Pages 69-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 Ouisconsin Eidos, Wisconsin Idea, and the Closure of Ideation (Jon McKenzie)....Pages 79-95 Inter Faces: Remapping Sights of Knowledge (Anna Street)....Pages 97-106 Performative Disciplinarity in Alternate Reality Games from Foucault to McKenzie and Beyond (Natasha Lushetich)....Pages 107-116 Philosophical Interruptions and Post-Ideational Genres: Thinking Beyond Literacy (Jon McKenzie, Anna Street)....Pages 117-124 Front Matter ....Pages 125-125 Power and Performance at Play: A Question of Life or Death (Catherine Malabou)....Pages 127-137 The Animal Way: On Malabou’s Deconstructed Life (John Ó Maoilearca)....Pages 139-143 Biological Plasticity and Performative Possibility in the Work of Catherine Malabou and Curious (Katie Schaag)....Pages 145-159 Thresholds of Resistance: Between Plasticity and Flexibility (Catherine Malabou, Julien Alliot, Anna Street)....Pages 161-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 When Gesture Becomes Event (Judith Butler)....Pages 171-191 Framing Performance Philosophy through the Proscenium (Freddie Rokem)....Pages 193-204 Subjects of Subversion: Rancière and Butler on the Aesthetics of Politics (Clare Woodford)....Pages 205-217 The Scene of Philosophy (Judith Butler, Magnolia Pauker)....Pages 219-225 Front Matter ....Pages 227-227 Ach! The History of a Complaint (Avital Ronell)....Pages 229-245 Ach? Ah! Whatever…The Invention of “BOF-ology” (Alice Lagaay)....Pages 247-254 Performing Stupidity (Sara Baranzoni)....Pages 255-266 Philosophical Proving Grounds (Avital Ronell, Magnolia Pauker)....Pages 267-276 Front Matter ....Pages 277-277 Irrevocable Loss (Alphonso Lingis)....Pages 279-299 Performing with Care: Reading with Alphonso Lingis (Sam Kolodezh)....Pages 301-307 On Performance and the Dramaturgy of Caring (Rebecca M. Groves)....Pages 309-318 Performing Care: Exploring Rituals, Demands and Otherness (Alphonso Lingis, Julien Alliot)....Pages 319-324 Front Matter ....Pages 325-325 Performance Knots: Crossed Threads of Anglo-American Thought and French Theory (David Zerbib, Julien Alliot, Magnolia Pauker, Anna Street)....Pages 327-337 Back Matter ....Pages 339-351