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11 - Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance à Digital Deleuze

from Act III A Digital Deleuze: Performance and New Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Timothy Murray
Affiliation:
Cornell University
Laura Cull
Affiliation:
Northumbria University
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It is not surprising that, among the many of the authors who promote it, structuralism is so often accompanied by calls for a new theatre or a new (non-Aristotelian) interpretation of the theatre: a theatre of multiplicities opposed in every respect to a theatre of representation, which leaves intact neither the identity of the thing represented, nor author, nor spectator, nor character, nor representation which, through the vicissitudes of the play, can become the object of a production of knowledge or final recognition. Instead, a theatre of problems and always open questions which draws spectator, setting and characters into the real movement of an apprenticeship of the entire unconscious, the final elements of which remain the problems themselves.

(Deleuze 1994: 192)

While the work of Gilles Deleuze might not always resemble a theatre of problems, it consistently grounds its readings of philosophy and its musings on cinema and art in the always open question of representation. Indeed, Deleuze opens the philosophical text framing his lifelong project, Difference and Repetition, by contrasting the theatre of representation with the more dynamic theatres of movement and repetition. The theatre of representation, whether on the classical stage or the philosophical page, is said to subscribe to a naturalised reliance on the presentation of ‘sameness’. This sameness of representation revolves around the quadripartite structure of representation that neatly aligns and contains text, perception, and subjectivity: the identity of concepts, the opposition of predicates, the analogy of judgement, and the resemblance of perception.

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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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