This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding of embodiment that resides in the extra violent conditions of contemporary global necro-capitalism in order to conduct a thorough analysis that goes beyond arts and culture. It brings together theoretical academic texts by established and emerging scholars alike, exposing perspectives form different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theater studies, and dance studies) as well as from different geopolitical contexts. Through a series of thematic clusters, the study explores the reactivation of the body as a site of a new meaning-making politics.

List of Contributors: Joachim Ben Yakoub, Johannes Birringer, Ramsay Burt, Lana Čmajčanin, Bojan Đorđev, Konstantina Georgelou, Lewis R. Gordon, Marina Gržinić, Abham Hafez, Jelena Jureša, Adela Jušić, Bojana Matejić, Goran Petrović Lotina, Brahama Prakash, Stacey Prickett, Aneta Stojnić, Jasmina Tumbas, Tanya Ury, Kristof van Baarle, Ana Vujanović, Frank B. Wilderson III, S.E.Wilmer

Publisher: Springer Nature - Palgrave Macmillan
Copyright Holder: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78343-7
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78342-0
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: English
Copyright: 2018

Palgrave Macmillan

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