Jerzy Grotowski: Towards a Poor Theatre (1968–) [EN, ES, BR-PT, RO]
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A classic work on theatre. Text by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training.
Preface by Peter Brook
Publisher Simon and Schuster, 1968
Expanded edition, edited by Eugenio Barba, Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0878301550, 9780878301553
262 pages
Towards a Poor Theatre (English, 1968/2002, 6 MB)
Hacia un teatro pobre (Spanish, trans. Margo Glantz, 1970/1992, via)
Em busca de um teatro pobre (Brazilian Portuguese, trans. Aldomar Conrado, 1976, 63 MB, via)
Spre un teatru sărac (Romanian, trans. George Banu and Mirella Nedelcu-Patureau, 1998, 90 MB, via)
Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos (eds.): ANY, 23: Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age (1998)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · abstract machine, architecture, diagram, fold, philosophy, representation, theory, topology
A special issue of the magazine ANY (Architecture New York) focusing on the diagram and diagrammatics (page 14 onwards).
With contributions by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Stan Allen, R.E. Somol, Peter Eisenman, Manuel De Landa, Christine Buci-Glucksman, Andrew Benjamin, Karl Chu, Brian Massumi, Greg Lynn, Mark Rakatansky, Sanford Kwinter, and Wes Jones.
Publisher Anyone Corporation, June 1998
ISSN 10684220
62 pages
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Commentary: Hélène Frichot (2011).
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Comment (0)Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, McKenzie Wark: Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · communication, horror, media, media theory, mediation, mysticism, mythology, networks, queer theory, theory
“Always connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark argue that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself—instances they call excommunication.
In three linked essays, Excommunication pursues this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today—mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes beyond Galloway’s classification scheme by examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Charting a trajectory of examples from H. P. Lovecraft to Meister Eckhart, Thacker explores those instances when one communicates or connects with the inaccessible, dubbing such modes of mediation “haunted” or “weird” to underscore their inaccessibility. Finally, Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. He posits a critical theory that celebrates heresy and that is distinct from those that now venerate Saint Paul.
Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and communication, Excommunication offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present condition.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2013
TRIOS series
ISBN 0226925226, 9780226925226
210 pages
Reviews: Daniel Colucciello Barber (Parrhesia, 2014), Jay Murphy (Afterimage, 2014), Geert Lovink (e-flux, 2014, Wark’s response), Aleksandra Kaminska (Reviews in Cultural Theory, 2015), Marco Deseriis (Culture Machine, 2015).
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