Žižek and Performance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Performing Žižek: Hegel, Lacan, Marx, and the Parallax View

   • Alex Mangold

   Pages 1-12

3. The Lacanian Performative: Austin after Žižek

   • Geoff Boucher

   Pages 13-32

4. Kantor’s Symptom or Grotowski’s Fantasy? Towards a Theatre of the Political

   • Bryce Lease

   Pages 33-47

5. Who’s Watching? Me!: Theatrality, Spectatorship, and the Žižekian Subject

   • Peter M. Boenisch

   Pages 48-60

6. Žižek’s Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace, and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director’s Subjectivity

   • Eve Katsouraki

   Pages 61-77

7. ‘Even if we do not take things seriously … we are still doing them’: Disidentification, Ideology, and Queer Performance

   • Stephen Greer

   Pages 78-93

8. The Performative Constitution of Liberal Totalitarianism on Facebook

   • Natasha Lushetich

   Pages 94-109

9. Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour

   • Graham Wolfe

   Pages 110-125

10. ‘There are more of you than there are of us’: Forced Entertainment and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject

    • Linda Taylor

    Pages 126-141

11. Ideology and the True/False Performance of Heritage

    • Paul Johnson

    Pages 142-153

12. Getting Involved with the Neighbour’s Thing: Žižek and the Participatory Performance of Reactor (UK)

    • Daniel Oliver

    Pages 154-164

13. Dancing with Žižek: Sublime Objets and the Hollywood Dance Film

    • Melissa Blanco Borelli

    Pages 165-177

14. ‘Actual Idiocy’ and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle

    • Dave Calvert

    Pages 178-195

15. Theatre’s Immediacy: Notes on Performing ‘with’ Žižek

    • Patrick Duggan

    Pages 196-208

16. Collaboration, Violence, and Difference

    • Simon Ellis, Colin Poole

    Pages 209-223

17. The Tickling Object: On Žižek and Comedy

    • Broderick Chow

    Pages 224-235

18. Notes on Performing, Its Frame, and Its Gaze

    • Slavoj Žižek

    Pages 236-252

19. Back Matter

    Pages 253-268

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The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Žižek's influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance studies. Featuring a brand new essay from Žižek himself, this is an indispensable contribution to the emerging field of Performance Philosophy.

• comedy
• ideology
• Immanuel Kant
• philosophy
• theatre

“This collection is a welcome introduction to a series that has been eagerly anticipated by those engaged in the growing field of performance philosophy. … This book is aimed at those interested in philosophy, those interested in performance and, primarily, those scholars who are interested in how each speaks to the other.” (Liz Tomlin, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 26 (1), February, 2016)

• Brunel University, UK

  Broderick Chow

• Aberystwyth University, UK

  Alex Mangold

Melissa Blanco Borelli, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Peter M. Boenisch, University of Kent, UK Geoff Boucher, Deakin University, Dave Calvert, University of Huddersfield, UK Patrick Duggan, University of Exeter, UK Simon Ellis, Roehampton University, UK Stephen Greer, University of Glasgow, UK Paul Johnson, University of Wolverhampton, UK Eve Katsouraki, University of East London, UK Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Natasha Lushetich, University of Exeter, UK Daniel Oliver, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Colin Poole, Independent Choreographer, UK Linda Taylor, Northumbria University, UK Graham Wolfe, National University of Singapore, Singapore Slavoj i ek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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