Differences in Degree or Kind? : Ockham’s Razor’s Not Until We Are Lost and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237155212
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- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7
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- Reframing Immersive Theatre : The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance
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- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 9781137366030
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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0
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- Additional information
- This chapter appears in Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance, edited by James Frieze alongside contributions from a diverse mix of international scholars and artists, many of who have been important in defining immersive theatre as a genre and field of study.
Differences in degree or kind? is a distinctive piece of research in so far as it tests out the boundaries of the category of ‘immersive theatre’ as a means of uncovering some of the contradictions and assumptions that can be generated through the play of repetition and difference, and inevitable ‘slippage’ of meanings, in debates around the relationship between aesthetics and politics in performance studies and elsewhere. In particular it explores the tendency to a generalisation of the notion of ‘politics’ as a loosely defined anti- (neo-liberal) capitalism and the implications of this move for evaluating the ‘progressiveness’ or otherwise, of live performance.
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