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Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance - The Initiation of History (Hardcover)
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Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance - The Initiation of History (Hardcover)
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
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Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of
History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its
relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and
performance as mediums through which politically innovative
temporalities, divorced from historical processionism and the
future, are inaugurated. Wickstrom is guided by three temporal
concepts: the new present, the penultimate, and kairos, as
developed by Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Antonio Negri
respectively. She works across a field of performance that includes
play texts by Aime Cesaire and C.L.R. James, and performances from
Ni'Ja Whitson to Cassils, the Gob Squad to William Kentridge and
African colonial revolts, Hofesh Schechter to Forced Entertainment
to Andrew Schneider and Omar Rajeh. Along the way she also engages
with Walter Benjamin, black international and radical thought and
performance, Bruno Latour, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten's
logistics and the hold, and accelerationism. Representing a
significant contribution to the growing interest in temporality in
Theatre and Performance Studies, the book offers alternatives to
what have been prevailing temporal preoccupations in those fields.
Countering investments in phenomenology, finitude, ghosting,
repetition, and return, Wickstrom argues that theatre and
performance can create a fiery sense of how to change time and
thereby nominate a new possibility for what it means to live.
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