Logomimesis: A Treatise on the Performing Body

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I Deduction of the scenic body
	1 The scenic body of the word
		1 The scene
		2 Theatre of deconstruction
		3 Grammar onstage
		4 The philosophical actor
		5 Embodying the word
		6 Imitating words
	2 The performing body is linguistic
		1 The actor’s political body
		2 Mimetology
		3 Mimetic affects
		4 The subject’s body
		5 Naive or sentimental?
		6 From the subject body to the performing body
		7 From mimetology to logomimesis
		8 The deconstructed actor
		9 Conclusion to Part I
Part II Logomimetic meditations
	Preface to Part II
	3 The performer’s virtual body
		1 The performing body as an element of performance
		2 The element of performance as a scenic body
		3 The experience of scenic exposure
		4 The experience of scenic transformation
		5 The artist’s arm
		6 Virtualization
		7 Body images and schemas
		8 Virtual matter
	4 Virtual objects onstage
		1 Basics of stage animation
		2 The virtual object in Deleuze
		3 Stage animation: two exercises
		4 The linguistic nature of virtual objects
		5 The floating signifier
		6 Subject body, scenic body, performing body
	5 Performance creates virtual space
		1 Demonstration
		2 From womb to stage
		3 The father’s womb
		4 The linguistic body and gender
		5 Space for enjoyment?
		6 The castle and its lord
		7 Virtual bodies in virtual space
		8 On the reality of language
	6 The scenic gesture and its rhythm
		1 A problematic gesture
		2 Brecht and Mei Lanfang
		3 Heidegger in Noh theatre
		4 Bearing and gathering
		5 Heidegger avec Brecht
		6 A world divided into bodies
		7 References
	7 Scenic apocatastasis
		1 All together?
		2 The saving power of learning
		3 A society without a contract
		4 Communion or commerce?
		5 The linguistic plane
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index