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The Aesthetic Exception theorises anew the relation between art and
politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of
aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective
form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the
flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art's politics is
limited to a recondite space of 'autonomous resistance'. The book
shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art's
exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy
and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art,
performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to
'effect' to offer a nuanced account of art's political character.
Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that
articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the
'new' through simulations capable of activating the political life
of the spectator. -- .
Strengthen your pupils' understanding The Exploring maths Class
Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher's Book and
are designed to help strengthen pupils' understanding. Includes
activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world
context. Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help
pupils work independently. 3 levels of differentiation in each
exercise help you pitch work at the right level. Specific
Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills. "How
well are you doing?" levelled self-assessment tests help pupils see
what they need to do to improve. Interesting facts inform pupils
about the cultural and social roots of maths.
Consolidating pupils' learning The Exploring maths Home Books
support and consolidate the work carried out in class. Each lesson
has a homework task reinforcing what's been taught in class. Each
homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson,
so that they can apply it to the questions. Accessible language
ensures that pupils can work without adult support.
Consolidating pupils' learning The Exploring maths Home Books
support and consolidate the work carried out in class. Each lesson
has a homework task reinforcing what's been taught in class. Each
homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson,
so that they can apply it to the questions. Accessible language
ensures that pupils can work without adult support.
Strengthen your pupils' understanding The Exploring maths Class
Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher's Book and
are designed to help strengthen pupils' understanding. Includes
activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world
context. Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help
pupils work independently. 3 levels of differentiation in each
exercise help you pitch work at the right level. Specific
Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills.
Strengthen your pupils' understanding The Exploring maths Class
Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher's Book and
are designed to help strengthen pupils' understanding. Includes
activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world
context. Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help
pupils work independently. 3 levels of differentiation in each
exercise help you pitch work at the right level. Specific
Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills. "How
well are you doing?" levelled self-assessment tests help pupils see
what they need to do to improve. Interesting facts inform pupils
about the cultural and social roots of maths.
Consolidating pupils' learning The Exploring maths Home Books
support and consolidate the work carried out in class. Each lesson
has a homework task reinforcing what's been taught in class. Each
homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson,
so that they can apply it to the questions. Accessible language
ensures that pupils can work without adult support.
Strengthen your pupils' understanding The Exploring maths Class
Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher's Book and
are designed to help strengthen pupils' understanding. Includes
activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world
context. Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help
pupils work independently. 3 levels of differentiation in each
exercise help you pitch work at the right level. Specific
Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills. "How
well are you doing?" levelled self-assessment tests help pupils see
what they need to do to improve. Interesting facts inform pupils
about the cultural and social roots of maths.
Consolidating pupils' learning The Exploring maths Home Books
support and consolidate the work carried out in class. Each lesson
has a homework task reinforcing what's been taught in class. Each
homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson,
so that they can apply it to the questions. Accessible language
ensures that pupils can work without adult support.
Theatre Institutions in Crisis examines how theatre in Europe is
beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need
for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at
work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is
understood, organised, delivered, and received. Balme and Fisher
bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries
across Europe to examine what factors can be said to be most common
to the institutional crisis of European theatre today. The methods
employed are drawn from systems theory, social-scientific
approaches, economics and statistics, theatre and performance, and
other interpretative approaches (hermeneutics), and labour studies.
This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and
practitioners working in the fields of performance and theatre
studies. It will be particularly relevant to researchers with a
particular interest in European theatre and its networks.
This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political
philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political
performance and the performativity of the politics of the street.
Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical
responses from many theatre and performance practitioners. However,
a decade of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the
eruption of new social movements around the world, the growth of
anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation struggles, the upsurge of
protests against the blockades of neoliberalism, and the rising
tide of dissent and anger against corporate power, with its
exorbitant social costs, have left theatre and performance
scholarship confronting something of a dilemma: how to theorize the
political antagonisms of our day? Drawing on the resources of
'post-Marxist' political thinkers such as Chantal Mouffe and
Jacques Ranciere, the book explores how new theoretical horizons
have been made available for performance analysis.
Theatre Institutions in Crisis examines how theatre in Europe is
beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need
for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at
work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is
understood, organised, delivered, and received. Balme and Fisher
bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries
across Europe to examine what factors can be said to be most common
to the institutional crisis of European theatre today. The methods
employed are drawn from systems theory, social-scientific
approaches, economics and statistics, theatre and performance, and
other interpretative approaches (hermeneutics), and labour studies.
This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and
practitioners working in the fields of performance and theatre
studies. It will be particularly relevant to researchers with a
particular interest in European theatre and its networks.
In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of
failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is
inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent
potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre,
performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures. Beyond
Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of
theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more
broadly. The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates
around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the
absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that
points to new ways of knowing and being in the world. Beyond
Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and
practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the
stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.
This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the
theatre resurfaced during the late Renaissance, so too government
as we understand it today also began to appear. Their mutually
entwining history was to have a profound influence on the
development of the modern British stage. This volume proposes a new
reading of theatre's relation to the public sphere. Employing a
series of historical case studies drawn from the London theatre,
Tony Fisher shows why the stage was of such great concern to
government by offering close readings of well-known religious,
moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role,
purpose and function of the stage in the 'well-ordered society'. In
framing these disputes in relation to what Michel Foucault called
the emerging 'art of government', this book draws out - for the
first time - a full genealogy of the governmental 'discourse on the
theatre'.
This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political
philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political
performance and the performativity of the politics of the street.
Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical
responses from many theatre and performance practitioners. However,
a decade of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the
eruption of new social movements around the world, the growth of
anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation struggles, the upsurge of
protests against the blockades of neoliberalism, and the rising
tide of dissent and anger against corporate power, with its
exorbitant social costs, have left theatre and performance
scholarship confronting something of a dilemma: how to theorize the
political antagonisms of our day? Drawing on the resources of
'post-Marxist' political thinkers such as Chantal Mouffe and
Jacques Ranciere, the book explores how new theoretical horizons
have been made available for performance analysis.
In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of
failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is
inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent
potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre,
performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures. Beyond
Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of
theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more
broadly. The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates
around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the
absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that
points to new ways of knowing and being in the world. Beyond
Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and
practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the
stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.
The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and
performance studies via Foucault's critical thought. With cutting
edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as
dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the
volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and
advanced students encountering Foucault's work for the first time.
The introduction sets out a thorough and informative assessment of
Foucault's relevance to theatre and performance studies and to our
present cultural moment - it rereads his profound engagement with
questions of truth, power and politics, in light of previously
unknown writings and lectures set in relation to current political
and cultural concerns. Unique to this volume is the discovery of a
'theatrical' Foucault - the profound affinity of his thinking with
questions of performativity. This discovery makes accessible the
'performance turn' to readers of Foucault, while opening up ways of
reading Foucault's oeuvre 'theatrically'. -- .
This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the
theatre resurfaced during the late Renaissance, so too government
as we understand it today also began to appear. Their mutually
entwining history was to have a profound influence on the
development of the modern British stage. This volume proposes a new
reading of theatre's relation to the public sphere. Employing a
series of historical case studies drawn from the London theatre,
Tony Fisher shows why the stage was of such great concern to
government by offering close readings of well-known religious,
moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role,
purpose and function of the stage in the 'well-ordered society'. In
framing these disputes in relation to what Michel Foucault called
the emerging 'art of government', this book draws out - for the
first time - a full genealogy of the governmental 'discourse on the
theatre'.
The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and
performance studies via Foucault's critical thought. With cutting
edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as
dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the
volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and
advanced students encountering Foucault's work for the first time.
The introduction sets out a thorough and informative assessment of
Foucault's relevance to theatre and performance studies and to our
present cultural moment - it rereads his profound engagement with
questions of truth, power and politics, in light of previously
unknown writings and lectures set in relation to current political
and cultural concerns. Unique to this volume is the discovery of a
'theatrical' Foucault - the profound affinity of his thinking with
questions of performativity. This discovery makes accessible the
'performance turn' to readers of Foucault, while opening up ways of
reading Foucault's oeuvre 'theatrically'. -- .
1966 Shortly before England's World Cup squad began their winning
crusade, three young lads from Birmingham kickstarted their
motorbike and sidecar and rode off on an ill-prepared and
ill-advised journey - across Europe, the Balkans and the Middle
East. This is the comic and touching story of their adventures...
and a glimpse back to the age of do-it-yourself travel.
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