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Theatre and Performance in

Digital Culture

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history

of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments,

weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre,

performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The

two Iraq Wars, 9/11 and the “War on Terrorism” are read through the lens

of performance studies, and Matthew Causey argues that the era of virtual-

ity and the age of simulation (such as the televisual presentations of Gulf

War I) have given way to a more troubling model of embeddedness , a prob-

lem of materiality and embodiment (such as American embedded reporting

from Iraq). Led by new strategies of the performance of war and terror,

mediatized and technologized cultural systems resist simulating signs of the

real to mask the real, and instead practise a technique of embeddedness,

infecting the real from within information patterns and biological entities,

seeking to coerce through a type of shock and awe .

Drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin

Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and

the theatre of Kantor, Foreman, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio and the Wooster

Group, the book positions theatre and performance in technoculture and

articulates the processes of aesthetics, metaphysics and politics. The wide-

ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been chal-

lenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena, and asks the

question that if contemporary technoculture operates under the regime of

embeddedness that seeks to infect information from within while coloniz-

ing the body through science and technology, and if the new site of the

struggle for sovereignty within bio-political systems is the bare life of the

individual, how can theatre produce an effective response?

Matthew Causey is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Trinity College, Dublin,

Ireland.

Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance

Studies

1 Theatre and Postcolonial Desires

Awam Amkpa

2 Brecht and Critical Theory Dialectics and Contemporary

Aesthetics

Sean Carney

3 Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting

Jonathan Pitches

4 Performance and Cognition Theatre Studies after the

Cognitive Turn

Edited by Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart

5 Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

From simulation to embeddedness

Matthew Causey

Theatre and Performance

in Digital Culture

From simulation to embeddedness

Matthew Causey

First published 2006

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