Artykuł stanowi prezentację najnowszej książki Williama B. Worthena Shakespeare, Theatre, Technicity (Cambridge, 2020), która jest próbą refleksji nad teatrem inscenizującym Shakespeare’a w epoce dominacji mediów cyfrowych. Praca znanego szekspirologa stanowi ważny głos w dyskusji nad teatrem jako hipermedium, czyli medium sięgającym po inne media, aby ustanowić swoją historyczną wersję w danej epoce. Koncepcja Worthena znajduje zakotwiczenie nie tylko w teoriach medioznawców, lecz nade wszystko w filozofii Bernarda Stieglera, który ujmuje człowieka jako istotę techniczną posługującą się materialno-technicznymi protezami (prostheses), aby przekroczyć własne bycie ku śmierci i móc istnieć poza uwarunkowaniami czysto biologicznymi. Jednym z istotnych argumentów Worthena za tym, aby uznać teatr za hipermedium, jest obszerna analiza praktyk, mitów i dylematów związanych z rekonstrukcją tradycyjnego teatru elżbietańskiego, które definiuje jako praktyki remediacyjne.
本文介绍了 William B. Worthen 最近出版的新书《莎士比亚、剧院、技术性》（剑桥，2020 年）。Worthen 的《莎士比亚、戏剧、技术性》（剑桥，2020 年）一书对数字媒体主导时代的莎士比亚舞台戏剧进行了反思。这位知名的莎士比亚学者的作品是讨论作为超媒体的戏剧的一个重要声音，也就是说，戏剧是一种向其他媒体延伸的媒介，在特定时代建立其历史版本。沃顿的这一概念不仅在媒体学者的理论中找到了立足点，而且首先在伯纳德-斯蒂格勒的哲学中找到了立足点，斯蒂格勒认为人是一种技术性的存在，使用物质技术假体（修复体）来超越自身的存在，直至死亡，并能够超越纯粹的生物条件而存在。沃顿将戏剧视为一种超媒介，其令人信服的论据之一是他对重建传统伊丽莎白戏剧的实践、神话和困境的广泛分析，他将其定义为补救实践。
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This essay uses the notion of necroepistemology to expose the killing of the other as executed by the neoliberal historiography in Ethiopia. Utilizing Fanonian negative dialectics, it critiques the ahistorical, immaterial, and reified object, as well as universal history, promoted by the official Ethiopian historiography’s absolute time, space, and matter. It does so to reveal the ways in which the enduring social questions and new imaginations are dismissed by this historiography as the work of the global-local left. To counterbalance this practice, I return to the 1974 Ethiopian socialist revolution and to the staging of Ethiopian socialism as a critical transnational rethinking of the human in the country. At the same time, attending to the everyday struggle of women performers in both the imperial and revolutionary spaces, the essay reminds us how the revolutionary practice, which had envisioned a new social human, ended up marking female performers’ bodies as dangerous for the socialist movement. Revealing the ways in which women performers collaborated with and fought against a male revolutionary figure, this essay ends with a call to respond to the current necroepistemic moment to draw attention to the historically vulnerable people who are dying in Ethiopia in the here and now.
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Artykuł stanowi recenzję zbiorowego tomu The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography (2020). Recenzentka skupia się na założeniach ideologicznych i metodologicznych redaktorek ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem inspiracji zwrotami archiwalnym i afektywnym w humanistyce. Wydobywa z książki wątki akcentujące polityczno-ideologiczne aspekty pracy z archiwum teatru, przede wszystkim relacje władzy ukryte w historycznych dokumentach oraz wieloaspektowe związki badacza z przedmiotem badań. Zwraca uwagę na możliwości problematyzacji pozycji historyka i na znaczenie społeczno-politycznych kontekstów teatru w historiografii.
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The theatrical oeuvre of Reza Abdoh has been lauded for its reinvigoration of the avantgarde, its formal and political daring and its astute commentary about the violence of the HIV virus (Fordyce, Carlson, Mufson, Bell). More recently, Abdoh’s work has been taken up as a commentary on neoliberalism—in part because of its politicization of bricolage and pastiche, recalling the more radical possibilities of theorizations of scholars such as Frederic Jameson (Zimmerman). Others have called out the modes by which Abdoh expanded the possibilities of queerness in the early 1990s. Yet no scholar has commented on Abdoh’s engagement of eschatology as a mode of historiography. That is the purpose of this essay. It is under this rubric, rather than an idea of generic postmodern milieu, that I read the multiple and discordant temporalities in Abdoh’s performances. While drawing on theories of the necropolitical (Mbembe) and gore capitalism (Valencia) in relation to conceptions of queer eschatology and capitalist violence, my inquiry emerges from consideration of the structural and theoretical aspects of the art works (“object’s”) themselves. I consider how Father Was a Peculiar Man (1990), performed in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, exemplifies the historiographical possibilities of performance through its embodiment of an eschatological vision of the world in which the gender binary is performatively undone.
Reza Abdoh的戏剧作品因其对先锋派的复兴，其在形式上和政治上的大胆以及对艾滋病毒暴力的敏锐评论而受到称赞(Fordyce, Carlson, Mufson, Bell)。最近，Abdoh的作品被认为是对新自由主义的评论，部分原因是其对拼凑和模仿的政治化，让人想起弗雷德里克·詹姆森(Frederic Jameson)等学者更激进的理论可能性。其他人则指出，阿卜杜在20世纪90年代早期拓展酷儿身份可能性的方式。然而，没有学者评论过阿卜杜将末世论作为一种史学模式。这就是这篇文章的目的。正是在这个标题下，而不是一般后现代环境的概念下，我在阿卜杜的表演中读到了多重和不协调的时间性。在借鉴死灵政治(Mbembe)和gore资本主义(Valencia)与酷儿末世论和资本主义暴力概念相关的理论的同时，我的调查源于对艺术作品(“对象”)本身的结构和理论方面的考虑。我认为《父亲是一个特殊的人》(Father Was a Peculiar Man, 1990)在曼哈顿的肉类加工区演出，通过体现世界的末世论视角，在这个世界上，性别二元性在表演上被取消，从而体现了表演的历史可能性。
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This essay presents Jay Wright’s play Lemma as a historiographical challenge and also as a piece of idiorrhythmic American theater. Consonant with his life’s work of poetry, dramatic literature, and philosophical writing, Lemma showcases Wright’s expansive intellectual framework with which he constructs vivid, dynamic, and complex visions of American life. The “America” conjured here is steeped in many traditions, traditions typically kept distinct by academic discourse, such as West African cosmology, Enlightenment philosophy, jazz music theory, Ancient Greek theater, neo-Baroque modifications of Christian theology, pre-Columbian indigenous ways of knowing, etymological connections between Spanish and Gaelic, the materiality of John Donne’s poetry, and the lives of enslaved Africans in the New World. What is the purpose of Wright’s theatrical conjuration? How do we approach a text with such a diverse body of intellectual and literary sources? The author answers these questions and ends with a call to treat Lemma as a much needed point of view that opens lines of sight into Black and American theater far outside the well-worn territory of the Black Arts Movement.
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American echoes of the Paris Commune have been muffled by the nation’s obsession with freedom at the expense of solidarity, but performative responses to social upheaval, including drama, parades, and protests, have tested the boundaries of public space and multiple temporalities from 1871 to 2021. This article notes traces of the Commune in the writings and performances of nineteenth century American anarchists but analyzes this legacy primarily in the 2012 performance of Brecht’s The Days of the Commune (1949) at New York sites claimed by the Occupy Movement in 2011. It also uses the argument of Brecht’s contemporary Ernst Bloch for cultural action grounded in an understanding of historical disappointment to anticipates setbacks while maintaining hope for future revolution. The paper delineates five theses on the politics of time: 1) the dramatic appeal of the clean break hides the tension between gradual evolution and a sudden event that ruptures the long span of history (Badiou); 2) historiography, the narrative that turns data into evidence, challenges the illusion of objectivity and thus a simple split between timely intervention and untimely interference with the established order (Nietzsche); 3) ana-chronology, the logic of untimeliness reads contemporaneity as companionship between events and agents across different times and places (Barthes); 4) recollecting history requires acts of forgetting, which shatter the constraints of the past to meet demands of the present (Renan, Nietzsche); 5) the politics of time entails the politics of place and thus requires the analysis of multiple temporalitieslayered on one site as well as political acts and performance in distinct places.
美国对巴黎公社的呼应被这个国家以牺牲团结为代价的对自由的痴迷所掩盖，但对社会动荡的表演回应，包括戏剧、游行和抗议，从1871年到2021年，已经考验了公共空间和多重时间性的界限。本文在19世纪美国无政府主义者的作品和表演中注意到公社的痕迹，但主要是在2012年布莱希特(Brecht)的《公社的日子》(the Days of the Commune, 1949)在2011年占领运动占领的纽约地点的表演中分析这一遗产。它还使用了布莱希特同时代的恩斯特·布洛赫(Ernst Bloch)的观点，认为文化行动基于对历史失望的理解，在对未来革命保持希望的同时，可以预见挫折。本文阐述了时间政治的五个论点:1)彻底决裂的戏剧性吸引力掩盖了渐进演变与打破漫长历史跨度的突发事件之间的张力(巴迪欧);2)史学，将数据转化为证据的叙述，挑战客观性的幻觉，从而在及时干预和不合时宜地干预既定秩序之间形成简单的分裂(尼采);3)逆年代学，非时效性的逻辑将当代性解读为不同时间和地点的事件和行动者之间的伙伴关系(巴特);4)回忆历史需要遗忘的行为，这打破了过去的限制，以满足现在的要求(勒南，尼采);5)时间的政治包含了地点的政治，因此需要对一个地点的多重时间性以及不同地点的政治行为和表现进行分析。
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Artykuł stanowi recenzję niedawno wydanego tomu The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography (2021). Przedstawiając zwięzłą historię powstania publikacji, jej układ i mozaikową koncepcję, główną problematykę i metodę, autorka przybliża niektóre teksty (szczególnie interesujące dla polskiego czytelnika). Tom, jak każde monumentalne przedsięwzięcie, budzi też zastrzeżenia; te dotyczą głównie realizacji postulatu polifonicznego i odnowicielskiego podejścia do historii widowisk oraz ograniczeń krytyki instytucjonalnej (jej optyka miewa również „ślepy punkt”).
文章评论了最近出版的《戏剧与表演史学路特利奇指南》（The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography，2021 年）一书。作者简明扼要地介绍了该出版物的创作历史、布局和马赛克式构思、主要问题和方法，并仔细研究了其中一些文本（波兰读者尤其感兴趣）。该书与其他巨著一样，也提出了一些保留意见；这些保留意见主要涉及对表演史的复调和更新方法这一假设的实施，以及机构批评的局限性（其光学也有一个 "盲点"）。
{"title":"Unisono","authors":"Dorota Jarząbek-Wasyl","doi":"10.36744/pt.1008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.1008","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł stanowi recenzję niedawno wydanego tomu The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography (2021). Przedstawiając zwięzłą historię powstania publikacji, jej układ i mozaikową koncepcję, główną problematykę i metodę, autorka przybliża niektóre teksty (szczególnie interesujące dla polskiego czytelnika). Tom, jak każde monumentalne przedsięwzięcie, budzi też zastrzeżenia; te dotyczą głównie realizacji postulatu polifonicznego i odnowicielskiego podejścia do historii widowisk oraz ograniczeń krytyki instytucjonalnej (jej optyka miewa również „ślepy punkt”).","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127242497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay argues that the staged encounters between museum visitors and dioramic display of dinosaur fossils in natural history and science museum spaces have been designed to capitalize on and performatively reify white anxiety about the exotic other using the same practices reserved for representing other historic threats to white safety and purity, such as primitive “savages” indigenous to the American West, sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon, and other untamed wildernesses through survival-of-the-fittest tropes persisting over the last century. Dinosaur others in popular culture have served as surrogates for white fears and anxieties about the racial other. The author examines early dioramic displays of dinosaurs at New York’s American Museum of Natural History and conjectural paintings by artists like Charles R. Knight to argue that the historiographic manipulation of time, space, and matter, enabled and legitimized by a centering of the white subject as protagonist, has defined how we understand dinosaurs and has structured our relationship with them as (pre)historical objects. Exposing the ways in which racist tropes like white precarity have informed historiographical practices in dinosaur exhibits offers a tool for interrogating how racist ideologies have permeated the formations of modernity that inform our modes of inquiry.
{"title":"Dinosaurs, Racial Anxiety, and Curatorial Intervention: Whiteness and Performative Historiography in the Museum","authors":"Scott Magelssen","doi":"10.36744/pt.984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.984","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that the staged encounters between museum visitors and dioramic display of dinosaur fossils in natural history and science museum spaces have been designed to capitalize on and performatively reify white anxiety about the exotic other using the same practices reserved for representing other historic threats to white safety and purity, such as primitive “savages” indigenous to the American West, sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon, and other untamed wildernesses through survival-of-the-fittest tropes persisting over the last century. Dinosaur others in popular culture have served as surrogates for white fears and anxieties about the racial other. The author examines early dioramic displays of dinosaurs at New York’s American Museum of Natural History and conjectural paintings by artists like Charles R. Knight to argue that the historiographic manipulation of time, space, and matter, enabled and legitimized by a centering of the white subject as protagonist, has defined how we understand dinosaurs and has structured our relationship with them as (pre)historical objects. Exposing the ways in which racist tropes like white precarity have informed historiographical practices in dinosaur exhibits offers a tool for interrogating how racist ideologies have permeated the formations of modernity that inform our modes of inquiry.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133022132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay takes up a core question of this issue of Pamiętnik Teatralny: how are we to think about historiography beyond a dualism, settled in time and reflective of the status quo? With respect to the California missions, historical treatments of colonization revolve around a dualism shaped by moral dimensions of the missionary enterprise—did the missions help California Indians or harm them? Theatrical representations, like the wildly successful early twentieth century pageant drama, The Mission Play, staged a version of mission history that argued for the former. As a representation of the mission past, the play conflated missions, as institutions, with the moral character of missionaries, thus edifying a fantasy and entrenching the dualism. However, attention to missionary practices, like keeping time using the mission bell, reveal how the missions were sites where indigenous and colonial realities were in constant conflict. Through practices, relations between missionaries and indios produced a space that was neither strictly colonial nor indigenous, and yet both—a borderland. As a mode of spatial dialectics, borderlands thinking can unsettle the duality underlying representations of the mission past to question how that dualism has come into being.
{"title":"Missionaries and Borderlands: «The Mission Play» and Missionary Practices in Alta California","authors":"David Meléndez","doi":"10.36744/pt.982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.982","url":null,"abstract":"This essay takes up a core question of this issue of Pamiętnik Teatralny: how are we to think about historiography beyond a dualism, settled in time and reflective of the status quo? With respect to the California missions, historical treatments of colonization revolve around a dualism shaped by moral dimensions of the missionary enterprise—did the missions help California Indians or harm them? Theatrical representations, like the wildly successful early twentieth century pageant drama, The Mission Play, staged a version of mission history that argued for the former. As a representation of the mission past, the play conflated missions, as institutions, with the moral character of missionaries, thus edifying a fantasy and entrenching the dualism. However, attention to missionary practices, like keeping time using the mission bell, reveal how the missions were sites where indigenous and colonial realities were in constant conflict. Through practices, relations between missionaries and indios produced a space that was neither strictly colonial nor indigenous, and yet both—a borderland. As a mode of spatial dialectics, borderlands thinking can unsettle the duality underlying representations of the mission past to question how that dualism has come into being.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132201717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This text analyzes the function of the chorus in Marta Górnicka’s open-air production Grundgesetz (Berlin, 2018) in redefining the political community of “the German people.” While examining its relation to the audience, the author refers to examples of German mass spectacles from the Weimar Republic that invested choruses to both represent a political community in the making and to shape political subjects through collective action. Based on aesthetic and political concepts of representation, which intertwine in the performance, the author shows how the chorus of Grundgesetz both portrays and enacts “the German people” as a plurality of bodies and voices united by fundamental rights. Making it thus an available community to stand for, the performance questions the agency of the audience as a collective body capable of acting together in public space.
{"title":"Marta Górnicka’s «Grundgesetz»: The Chorus as Portrait and Proxy of Political Community","authors":"Louise Décaillet","doi":"10.36744/pt.830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.830","url":null,"abstract":"This text analyzes the function of the chorus in Marta Górnicka’s open-air production Grundgesetz (Berlin, 2018) in redefining the political community of “the German people.” While examining its relation to the audience, the author refers to examples of German mass spectacles from the Weimar Republic that invested choruses to both represent a political community in the making and to shape political subjects through collective action. Based on aesthetic and political concepts of representation, which intertwine in the performance, the author shows how the chorus of Grundgesetz both portrays and enacts “the German people” as a plurality of bodies and voices united by fundamental rights. Making it thus an available community to stand for, the performance questions the agency of the audience as a collective body capable of acting together in public space.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121359024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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