Figures of Posthumanism in Contemporary Performance
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Author_Kristof van Baarle
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contemporary drama
contemporary theatre
digital media
dramaturgy
ecology
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new materialism
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Posthumanism
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- ISBN 9781350347359
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book analyses how artists work through and reflect upon processes that together form a posthumanist condition. It critically revises the figure of the "cyborg", central to posthumanist thinking and performance, and proposes an alternative figure through which to think about and create with technology: the "apparatus".
It draws on the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Donna Haraway and other contemporary thinkers of ecology and technology; recent philosophical theories, such as speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, dark ecology and new materialism; as well as the work of leading contemporary performance makers, such as Kris Verdonck, Mette Ingvartsen, Guemhyung Jeong, Romeo Castellucci and Okada Toshiki.
Through doing so, the book captures an important shift away from anthropocentrism and the consequences for the dramaturgies that subsequently unfold.
Kristof van Baarle is post-doctoral researcher at Antwerp University’s Research Centre for Visual Poetics, BE. As a dramaturg, he works with Kris Verdonck and Michiel Vandevelde among others. Together with Verdonck, he conducts an artistic research project on Beckett and Noh at KASK – School of Arts. He is an associate editor of Performance Research and his work has been published in various journals and book chapters. He teaches regularly in various universities and art schools, such as P.A.R.T.S., KASK and the universities of Antwerp and Ghent.
