Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Notes on performing, its frame, and its gaze / Slavoj Žižek. The Lacanian performative: Austin after Žižek / Geoff Boucher -- Kantor's symptom or Grotowski's fantasy? Towards a theatre of the political / Bryce Lease -- Who's watching? Me!: Theatrality, spectatorship, and the Žižekian subject / Peter M. Boenisch -- Žižek's death drive, the intervention of grace, and the Wagnerian performative: conceptualising the director's subjectivity / Eve Katsouraki -- 'Even if we do not take things seriously ... we are still doing them': disidentification, ideology, and queer performance / Stephen Greer -- The performative constitution of liberal totalitarianism on Facebook / Natasha Lushetich -- Enjoyment as a theatrical object: the actor as neighbour / Graham Wolfe -- 'There are more of you than there are of us': forced entertainment and the critique of the neoliberal subject / Linda Taylor -- Ideology and the true/false performance of heritage / Paul Johnson -- Getting involved with the neighbour's thing: Žižek and the participatory performance of Reactor (UK) / Daniel Oliver -- Dancing with Žižek: sublime Objets and the Hollywood dance film / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- 'Actual idiocy' and the sublime object of Susan Boyle / Dave Calvert -- Theatre's immediacy: notes on performing 'with' Žižek / Patrick Duggan -- Collaboration, violence, and difference / Simon Ellis and Colin Poole -- The tickling object: on Žižek and comedy / Broderick Chow -- Notes on performing, its frame, and its gaze / Slavoj Žižek.
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