This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre', metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world.

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"With Cyborg Theatre, Parker-Starbuck has created a rigorous and engaging resource for scholars, practitioners, pedagogues, and students of multimedia performance... [The book provides] a valuable model of performance studies scholarship that can serve to guide future investigations of cyborg performance." - Elise Morrison, Contemporary Theatre Review

"Cyborg Theatre is essential reading for all those interested in the complex and multiple intertwinings between bodies and technologies, in theatre and performance, and in life overall, in an environment within which technology claims increasing degrees of agency." - Maria Chatzichristodoulou, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

About the author

JENNIFER PARKER-STARBUCK is a Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University, London, UK. Her essays on bodies, animality, and multimedia have appeared in a variety of books and journals including: Theatre Journal, PAJ, Women and Performance. She is an Assistant Editor of PAJ and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Cyborg Theatre
Book Subtitle: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance
Authors: Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Series Title: Performance Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306523
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24583-9Published: 28 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46641-9Published: 28 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30652-3Published: 28 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2947-5600
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 241
Topics: Performing Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Feminism, Multimedia Information Systems

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Why Cyborg Theatre

BACKspace: Historical/Theoretical Intersections

SHIFTing the Balance: “Abject” Bodies

“Object” of CONTROL: Framing the Fragments

ENTERing the View: Triangulating “Subject” Bodies

Conclusion: Remembering Bodies, Becoming-Cyborg

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