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Politics of Practice

A Rhetoric of Performativity

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Lynette Hunter

    1. Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, Davis, USA

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  • Rethinks performance studies from the perspective of the performer, which simultaneously recasts the audience member
  • Suggests a rhetoric of performativity that articulates aesthetic affect as inextricable from politics and ethics
  • Offers four detailed case studies of work by nationally and internationally known artmakers

Part of the book series: Performance Philosophy (PPH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lynette Hunter
    Pages 1-9

  3. Sociosituated, Alongside, Collaboration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Sociocultural and the Sociosituated

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 13-44

    3. The Alongside

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 45-68

    4. Sustaining Sociosituated Performativity with Collaboration

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 69-93

    5. Transition—Critical Reflections

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 95-101

  4. (rest, Form, Embodiment, Medium

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger and Turbulence

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 105-144

    3. Ilya Noé’s Deerwalk

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 145-179

    4. Caro Novella’s parèntesi and Resistencias Sonoras

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 181-213

    5. duskin drum, Selections from Performance Artmaking

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 215-243

    6. Completed Notes: Finding Critical Form

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 245-250

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 251-278
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About this book

This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noé, Caro Novella, and duskin drum – to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse. The first part of the book makes a case for the political work done alongside discourse by performers practising with materials that are not-known, in ways that are directly relevant to people carrying out their daily lives. In the second part of the book, four case study chapters circle around figures of irresolvable paradox – hendiadys, enthymeme, anecdote, allegory – that gesture to what is not-known, to study strategies for processes of becoming, knowing and valuing. These figures also shape some elements of these performances that make up a suggested rhetorical stance for performativity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, Davis, USA

    Lynette Hunter

About the author

Lynette Hunter has a background in rhetoric, philosophy and political theory. She has researched women’s history and feminism, the history of science and medicine, decolonialism and Canadian Studies, and, more recently, performance and practice. Writer, co-writer and co-editor of 30 books, her work is significantly informed by learning from daoist epistemology and indigenous ways of knowing.

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