Žižek and Performance

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Performing Žižek: Hegel, Lacan, Marx, and the Parallax View....Pages 1-12
The Lacanian Performative: Austin after Žižek....Pages 13-32
Kantor’s Symptom or Grotowski’s Fantasy? Towards a Theatre of the Political....Pages 33-47
Who’s Watching? Me!: Theatrality, Spectatorship, and the Žižekian Subject....Pages 48-60
Žižek’s Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace, and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director’s Subjectivity....Pages 61-77
‘Even if we do not take things seriously … we are still doing them’: Disidentification, Ideology, and Queer Performance....Pages 78-93
The Performative Constitution of Liberal Totalitarianism on Facebook....Pages 94-109
Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour....Pages 110-125
‘There are more of you than there are of us’: Forced Entertainment and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject....Pages 126-141
Ideology and the True/False Performance of Heritage....Pages 142-153
Getting Involved with the Neighbour’s Thing: Žižek and the Participatory Performance of Reactor (UK)....Pages 154-164
Dancing with Žižek: Sublime Objets and the Hollywood Dance Film....Pages 165-177
‘Actual Idiocy’ and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle....Pages 178-195
Theatre’s Immediacy: Notes on Performing ‘with’ Žižek....Pages 196-208
Collaboration, Violence, and Difference....Pages 209-223
The Tickling Object: On Žižek and Comedy....Pages 224-235
Notes on Performing, Its Frame, and Its Gaze....Pages 236-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-268