Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) - Softcover

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Causey, Matthew

 
9780415544108: Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415544106 ISBN 13: 9780415544108
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.

The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio and the Wooster Group, the book positions theatre and performance in technoculture and articulates the processes of aesthetics, metaphysics and politics.

This wide-ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena.

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About the Author

Matthew Causey is Lecturer in Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415544106
ISBN 13 
9780415544108
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
228

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