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To end GOD’S JUDGEMENT
Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)
Radio Works: 1946–48
Artaud’s work is performative in the sense that it never simply describes, but actively produces the events it enacts. As Austin characterises performative language, ‘the issuing of the utterance is the performing of an action’.3 Artaud’s work, performed correctly, is magical, finding its power in ritualistic chanting. Intonation is key to this, recalling what he wrote about metaphysical language in The Theatre and its Double, where the aim is ‘to deal with intonations in an absolutely concrete manner, restoring their...
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Anthology
Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten
Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)
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Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen
Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)
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Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
Liliana Gómez (ed.)
Performing Human Rights
This book aims to show how arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds, which with their creative modes do provide alternate semantics to the legal failures and the state’s official silence. This book shares the conviction that, after all, artistic articulations allow ethico-aesthetic considerations of “questions that are broader than the law and the institutions of the political, precisely because they are prior to law … and...
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