Contemporary Performance and Political Economy - Oikonomia As a New Ethico-Political Paradigm

This book examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Its premise is that, under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm
Chapter 1
Constructing Spaces of Decision, Affect, and Creative Possibility: Jérôme Bel's Economies and Encounters
Chapter 2
Failing Resistances and Neoliberal Subjects: Individual and Collective Experiments Towards Alternative Politico-Economic Models in Tino Sehgal's These Associations
Chapter 3
The Animation of Contemporary Subjectivity: Imagining a World Beyond the Present with Tino Sehgal's Ann Lee
Chapter 4
Capitalist and Ethical Critiques: Santiago Sierra's Ghosts and Relentless Mirror
Chapter 5
The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera's Wrestling with Power Structures for the Creation of Alternative Futures
Chapter 6
Replacing Experiments, Re-Writing Fictions: Closing Thoughts
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Katerina Paramana is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Theatre and Performance at Brunel University of London, UK. She is co-editor of Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World and of Art and Dance in Dialogue, founding book series co-editor of Dance in Dialogue, and founding editor of the "Political Economy and the Arts" Section at Lateral, the Cultural Studies Association Journal.

Summary

This book examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Its premise is that, under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Katerina Paramana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032373652
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237365-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Dance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, ART / History / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, History of art / art & design styles, Theatre Studies, Politics & government, History of Art, Political Economy, Politics and government, Performance Art