Imagine the Utopia! Rethinking Alain Badiou’s Theatre-Politics Isomorphism
The presented article is a polemic with Alain Badiou’s concept of theatre-politics isomorphism. The author adapts the basic elements of Badiou’s philosophy (event, void Ø, truth etc.), provides an interpretation of his theory of theatre and presents crucial critical arguments to reveal the reduction...
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| description | The presented article is a polemic with Alain Badiou’s concept of theatre-politics isomorphism. The author adapts the basic elements of Badiou’s philosophy (event, void Ø, truth etc.), provides an interpretation of his theory of theatre and presents crucial critical arguments to reveal the reductionism of Badiou’s philosophy. Subsequently, the author presents his alternative theory of theatre based on this ground. The article assumes that theatre performance is a live, truthful event, an encounter of humans experiencing an imagined Utopia based on their structural homology (shared materiality, phylogenetic archetypal memory, existentiality). The argument is supported by the recent research in neuroscience. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7b0f5a0ca1d448caa311653360d830222025-08-20T03:08:01ZengSlovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theatre and Film Research of The Art Research CentreSlovenské divadlo1336-86052018-09-0166331132910.2478/sd-2018-0019sd-2018-0019Imagine the Utopia! Rethinking Alain Badiou’s Theatre-Politics IsomorphismMotal Jan0Theatre Faculty, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in BrnoThe presented article is a polemic with Alain Badiou’s concept of theatre-politics isomorphism. The author adapts the basic elements of Badiou’s philosophy (event, void Ø, truth etc.), provides an interpretation of his theory of theatre and presents crucial critical arguments to reveal the reductionism of Badiou’s philosophy. Subsequently, the author presents his alternative theory of theatre based on this ground. The article assumes that theatre performance is a live, truthful event, an encounter of humans experiencing an imagined Utopia based on their structural homology (shared materiality, phylogenetic archetypal memory, existentiality). The argument is supported by the recent research in neuroscience.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sd.2018.66.issue-3/sd-2018-0019/sd-2018-0019.xml?format=INTtheatrelivenessdialogueutopiapoliticseventuniversalitymaterialityfeedback loop |
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| title | Imagine the Utopia! Rethinking Alain Badiou’s Theatre-Politics Isomorphism |
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| title_short | Imagine the Utopia! Rethinking Alain Badiou’s Theatre-Politics Isomorphism |
| title_sort | imagine the utopia rethinking alain badiou s theatre politics isomorphism |
| topic | theatre liveness dialogue utopia politics event universality materiality feedback loop |
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