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Situated knowing : epistemic perspectives on performance /

Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies' ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline. This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosophe...

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Other Authors: Bal, Ewa, 1973- (Editor), Chaberski, Mateusz (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Subjects:
Performance art > Philosophy.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781000082081
1000082083
9780367809584
0367809583
9781000082111
1000082113
9781000082142
1000082148
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Previously published material
  • Introduction: Situated knowing: From performance art to the laboratory of knowledge-making
  • References
  • Part 1 Knowing and alternative genealogies
  • Chapter 1 Slough media
  • The scandal of the obsolete
  • Bone in hand
  • Intrainanimacy
  • Hand in rock in hand
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 2 The performing arts as 'cognitive hybrids': The power of the performatic Spiel-Raum
  • Walter Benjamin: mimesis and play
  • Eric A. Havelock: An analysis of Plato's rejection of mimesis
  • Merlin Donald: 'Mimetic culture'
  • Conclusions: Performing arts as 'cognitive hybrids'
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 2 Knowing with performative arts
  • Chapter 3 Dead capital
  • I
  • II
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Beyond presence: Performing the limits of knowing
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Performative approaches to the cultural policy field
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 3 Knowing in contact zones
  • Chapter 6 Decolonising documentary: Wojtek Doroszuk's Sape and Prince
  • The documentary turn
  • The documentary in the age of decolonisation
  • Performative documentary
  • The documentary as a site of translation
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Beyond ethnicity? New architectures of access to local cultures in Dorota Nieznalska's Memory and Violence (2019)
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 4 Knowing beyond the human
  • Chapter 8 The shadow of a pine tree: Authorship, agency and performing beyond the human
  • What is an author?
  • Shared authorship
  • What about performing?
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 9 What performativity scholars can learn from mushrooms: Situated knowing in polyphonic assemblages.
  • Performativity beyond the human
  • The matsutake as a polyphonic assemblage
  • Mushrooms and collaborative survival
  • Mushrooms and identities beyond the individual
  • Mushrooms and (non-)progressive development
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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