Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in which many continue to privilege the notion of performance as representation, as anchored by its imitation of an identity: 'the world', 'the play', 'the self'? Deleuze and Performance is a collection of new essays dedicated to Deleuze's writing on theatre and to the productivity of his philosophy for (re)thinking performance. This book provides rig
Performing in the chaosmos : farts, follicles, mathematics and delirium in Deleuze j/ Herbert Blau -- Act I Deleuze on theatre : Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene. I Artaud BwO : the uses of Artaud's To have done with the judgement of god / Edward Scheer ; Expression and affect in Kleist, Beckett and Deleuze / Anthony Uhlmann ; A theatre of subtractive extinction : Bene without Deleuze / Lorenzo Chiesa -- Interval. Performing, strolling, thinking : from minor literature to theatre of the future / Daniel Watt ; Off the beaten path or, notes towards a Heideggerian deterritorialisation : a response to Daniel Watt / Julian Wolfreys -- Act II Confronting Deleuze and live performance. Becoming a citizen of the world : Deleuze between Allan Kaprow and Adrian Piper / Stephen Zepke ; Sub specie durationis / Matthew Goulish and Laura Cull ; Thinking through theatre / Maaike Bleeker ; Becoming-donosaur : collective process and movement aesthetics / Anna Hickey-Moody -- Interval. Of butterflies, bodies and biograms : affective spaces in performativities in the performance of Madama Butterfly / Barbara Kennedy -- Act III A digital Deleuze : performance and new media. Like a prosthesis : critical performance à digital Deleuze / Timothy Murray ; Performance as the distribution of life : from Aeschylus to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari / Andrew Murphie ; The 'minor' arithmetic of rhythm : imagining digital technologies for dance / Stamatia Portanova
