Waste : : capitalism and the dissolution of the human in twentieth-century theater / / Jessica Rizzo.
"If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's mo...
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Rizzo, Jessica, author. Waste : capitalism and the dissolution of the human in twentieth-century theater / Jessica Rizzo. Waste [Santa Barbara, California] : Punctum Books, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (171 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Description based on print version record. "If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed of herself, to experience herself as excess, the waster and the waste of the world. By examining theatrical representations of capitalism, war, climate change, and the permanent refugee crisis, Waste traces the ways in which these human contributions signal a tendency toward prodigality that terminates with self-destruction. Defying its promise of abundance for all, capitalism poisons all relationships with competition and fear. The desire to dominate in war is revealed to be the desire to obliterate the self in collective conflagration. The refugee crisis raises the urgent question of our responsibility to the other, but the climate crisis renders all anthropocentric questions moot.Waste proposes that the theater is the form best suited to confronting the human's perverse relationship to her finitude. Everything about the theater is suffused with existential shame, with an acute awareness of its provisionality. Unlike the dominant narrative of the human, which is bound up with a fantasy of infinite growth, the theater is not deluded about its nature, origins, and destiny. At its best, the theater gathers artist and audience in one space to die together for a little while, to consciously waste, not spend, their time"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Staging Capitalism: Dramatic Surplus and Inefficiency -- 2. War: Abjection and Oblivion -- 3. Crisis of Imagination: The Anthropocene -- 4. Debt and the Refugee -- Epilogue: America -- Bibliography. Drama History and criticism. Theater and society. |
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