{"id":269,"date":"2023-06-13T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desorganisation.org\/spectacular-politics-over-identification-and-monstrosity\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:47:57","slug":"spectacular-politics-over-identification-and-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desorganisation.org\/en\/events\/spectacular-politics-over-identification-and-monstrosity\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECTACULAR POLITICS, OVER-IDENTIFICATION AND MONSTROSITY 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPECTACULAR POLITICS, OVER-IDENTIFICATION AND MONSTROSITY<\/h2>\n
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Ani Vaseva, lecture within the framework of What is Philosophy? #2, a series of lectures by Boyan Manchev at Viere Welt, Berlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Berlin, Vierte Welt, Monday, 19.06.23, 19:00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ani Vaseva will examine the eternal competition between philosophy and theater for the rights to truth. Vaseva will shed light on the contemporary tendency to amalgamate the concept of truth in theatrical practice, taking into account the appropriation of theatrical models by the new regimes of spectacle (spectacle politics, media over-identification and the production of monstrosity). Thus, Vaseva will ultimately confront the tension between contemporary modalities of theatrical performance and performative regimes of truth production.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is theater the land of the monsters of truth?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lecture is be based on her book Theater and Truth (2021).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIn theatre, the zombie is a dead flesh that can live any life, but in the new media, in the very heart of spectacle, the zombie is an empty image, a dead flesh made to work, that cannot live a life other than the one prescribed by the medium. The first zombie can do anything, the other can only do one thing \u2013 be dead, be nothing. The \u201cautonomously moving non-living\u201d, in Debord\u2019s terms, opens a possibility for theatre that is also political as such \u2013 the possibility of conceiving reality as an unstable, unfixed, plastic matter that can model itself beyond the limits of the imaginable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In theatre, identification is an instrument of play, of uncertainty and potentiality. The \u201cautonomously moving non-living\u201c in the world of the new social (indeed economic) media is a parasitic force that sucks the vitality from both its creators and its consumers, turning it into capital. In this world, (over)identification is a tool not for liberation but for fixation \u2013 for attaching market value to what is obstinate and elusive, which is captured and enslaved by being reduced to commodity. This world, of course, is the new world of the society of the spectacle described by Debord in his clairvoyant text.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Ani Vaseva, Theatre and Truth, pp. 477-478).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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