}i~ek and Performance [Paperback]

The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj }i~ek's influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance studies. Featuring a brand new essay from }i~ek himself, this is an indispensable contribution to the emerging field of Performance Philosophy.Introduction: Performing }i~ek: Hegel, Lacan, Marx and the Parallax View 1. Kantor's Symptom or Grotowski's Fantasy?: Defining a Political Theatre over a Theatre of Politics; Bryce Lease 2. The Lacanian Performative: Austin after }i~ek; Geoff Boucher 3. Who's Watching? Me!: Theatrality, Spectatorship, and the }i~ekian Subject; Peter M. Boenisch 4. }i~ek's Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director's Subjectivity; Eve Katsouraki 5. 'Even if we do not take things seriously& we are still doing them ': Disidentification, Ideology, and Queer Performance; Stephen Greer 6. The Performative Constitution of Liberal Totalitarianism on Facebook; Natasha Lushetich 7. Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour; Graham Wolfe 8. 'There are more of you than there are of us': Forced Entertainment and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject; Linda Taylor 9. Ideology and the True/False Performance of Heritage; Paul Johnson 10. Getting Involved with the Neighbour's Thing: }i~ek and the Participatory Performance of Reactor (UK); Daniel Oliver 11. Dancing with }i~ek: Sublime Objets and the Hollywood Dance Film; Melissa Blanco Borelli 12. There are dreams that cannot be: 'Actual Idiocy' and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle; Dave Calvert 13. Theatre's Immediacy: Notes on Performing 'With' }i~ek; Patrick Duggan 14. Collaboration, Violence, and Difference; Simon Ellis and Colin Poole 15. The Tickling Object: On }i~ek and Comedy; Broderick D.V. Chow 16. Notes on Performing, its Frame, and its Gaze; Slavoj }i~ek Bibliography Index

This collection is a welcome introduction to a series that has been eagerly anticipated by those engaged in the growing fieldlC9