Performance Philosophies – serie
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What meaning and potential could be offered by performance in the age of ecological crises, climatic change and the sixth extinction? Tuija Kokkonen responds to this core question from various perspectives with particular inspiration from Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies (1989) and the author’s artistic work on ecology and performance. Ecological crises are understood and explored as wider phenomena emerging in three ecological levels – the mental, the social and the environmental – cohering with and affecting each other.Cutting across areas of artistic research and performance philosophy, as well as engaging in post-humanism, animal studies, and plant philosophy, the central concern of the book is our relationship to the non-human and what it means to our understanding of performance and subjectivity if the agency of performance and its social area are opened to non-human co-actors, to beings of other species, to animals, plants and weather. These performances as well as the concepts and thoughts arise from a performance practice described – echoing Michal Marder’s plant thinking (2013) – as performance-thinking, partly a non-cognitive, embodied way of thinking about and with performance. Through agencies of animals, plants and weather, the book also explores the borders of performance, and of human being.In this book, five key performance studies terms and questions are addressed – human centeredness, liveness, spectatorship, event and performance – and are rethought in the context of posthuman performance practice and theories. Furthermore, some unknown or less familiar philosophers, especially in the field of environmental philosophy are introduced, such as the Czech philosopher Erazim Kohák, Finnish philosophers Yrjö Haila and Ville Lähde, and Hans Jonas as a philosopher of environment ethics.
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Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, the book contributes to the theory of alterity in Performance Philosophy, while stimulating and inspiring future inquiries where studies in media, art, and literature intersect with philosophy. It collects a selective as well as productive diversity of philosophical, literary, and artistic figures of thought, attaining an exacting framework as a result of a clearly elaborated ethics of alterity, innovatively opened up by way of an aisthetics of existence: Touching upon the Aristotelian concept of aisthesis, the material, perceptual and sensory dimensions of everyday bodily existence are highlighted to move beyond what aesthetics in Modern Philosophy just specializes in, namely art and the beautiful. The notion of existence is therefore borrowed from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who understands it as something concrete and richly interrelated, so as to avoid the dualisms both of psychological processes of consciousness and of physiological mechanisms. It is thus made explicit such that the unity of body and soul is not any arbitrarily arranged connection between “subject” and “object” but, rather, that it is enacted at every instant in the movement of existence. Imaginatively then, the book puts into writing how alterity not only can be treated theoretically but can be also made accessible through writing as well as rendered relatable through reading. That is why it deals with exemplary interpersonal encounters in the lifeworld, in the arts, and in the media, which are initially thematized as intercorporeal experiences, so as to enable an approach for an ethics of alterity by way of, in particular, sites located within a phenomenology of perception oriented towards the lived body.