Petrović-Lotina, GoranUnknown
Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English9783030794460Unknown1st ed.THEATER--POLITICAL ASPECTS; UnknownIn Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrović Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance. Exploring the political and philosophical roots of a number of recent leftist civil movements, Petrović Lotina forcefully argues for a re-imagining of artistic performance as an instrument of democracy capable of contesting a dominant politics.
Inspired by post-Marxist theories of discourse theory, hegemony, conflict, and pluralism, and using tension as a guiding philosophical, political, and artistic force, the book expands the politico-philosophical debate on theories of performance. It offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which artistic performance can be viewed politically as ‘agonistic choreo-political practice,’ a powerful strategy for mobilising alternative ways of living together and invigorating democracy.
Choreographing Agonism makes a bold and innovative contribution to the discussion of political and philosophical thought in the field of Performance Studies.
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1 online resource (xii, 186 p.)UnknownUnknown
Summary / review / table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Constructing the people
Chapter 3. The choreography of articulation
Chapter 4. Political strategies and Performance Studies
Chapter 5. Discourse theory and artistic performances
Chapter 6. Tension: a guiding force in performance, philosophy, and politics
Chapter 7. Drama: an encounter between the performance and the audience
Chapter 8. Affects and opinion formation
Chapter 9. Identifications
Bibliography
Index