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Adorno and Performance
Editors: Will Daddario and Karoline Gritzner
Call for Abstracts
The editors ofB Adorno and PerformanceB seek proposals for essays that
work through Theodor W. Adornobs philosophy as it relates to theatre,
drama, music, aesthetics, everyday life, the relation of art to
society, theory to practice, and other domains of bperformanceb. This
collection will attempt to critique existing understandings of
performance in multiple fields, such as the performing arts, arts
administration, the social and political sciences, literature,
linguistics, philosophy, etc. The glue binding together the various
understandings of the term bperformanceb is Adornobs life work of
critical theory, which itself turns its negative dialectical practice
on these diverse fields of study, returning again and again to the
arenas of performance and theatricality as perhaps best exemplified
inB Towards a Theory of Musical ReproductionB andB Aesthetic Theory.B
Essays may explore topics such as:B -B B B B B B B B B B The implications of
Adornobs philosophy of nonidentity and his aesthetic theory for
theatre, drama, music and performance studies-B B B B B B B B B B Applications
of
Adornian thought to the analysis of performance-B B B B B B B B B B Negative
dialectics and immanent criticism: their roles in interpreting
performance-B B B B B B B B B B How renewed investigations into key Adornian
terminology (mimesis, expression, artbs enigmatic character, truth
content, natural beauty, semblance, logic of disintegration, etc.)
might help to reappraise central concepts within and across the
disciplines of performance, theatre and drama studies, musicology, the
social sciences, etc.-B B B B B B B B B B Critiques of the Culture Industry
and
performance studies: challenges to the state of the
profession-B B B B B B B B B B Adornobs social criticism (his critique of
the
performance of individuality, expression and experience in the Culture
Industry)-B B B B B B B B B B Adornobs theory of musical reproduction (the
relation between musical text and performance)-B B B B B B B B B B Adorno as
composer-B B B B B B B B B B Adornobs writings on drama and theatre (Brecht,
Beckett), performance (happenings), opera, the intermedialisation
(Verfransung) of the arts, etc.B
We are in the process of securing a publishing agreement for this
anthology, which will be part of a new book series linked to the
international research network PERFORMANCE
PHILOSOPHYB (http://performancephilosophy.ning.com).Please send
abstracts of no more than 500 words and a short biographical note to
both editors, Will Daddario ([email protected]) and Karoline
Gritzner ([email protected]) by October 31,
2012._______________________________________________
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