Description
‘On Drifting’ looks to return to and rethink the aesthetic and political implications of la dérive for theatre and performance studies and beyond. Originally posited as a technique by the Situationist International (SI) for overcoming the alienation imposed by the ‘society of the spectacle’, drifting today has a very different significance and application(s). In this issue, drifting is no longer simply equated with contemporary walking practices, although these are in no way ignored, especially in terms of gender, sexuality, immigration and able-bodiedness. Rather, it has been expanded to exist as an aesthetico-political category in its own right — something, then, that is found in theatre, writing, reading, drawing, cinema and indeed language itself. Equally, drifting is no longer simply associated with humans — now, it is configured as something non-human, an activity that animals, rocks and the earth itself are all engaged with permanently. In this expansion of the field, the ultimate aim behind the issue is to stimulate a new dialogue between theatre and performance studies and the SI, to see what happens when the drift is contextualized within the ‘control societies’ of the Anthropocene.
Read the Editorial and Abstracts for the articles below here.
Rethinking the Dérive : Drifting and theatricality in theatre and performance studies
Carl Lavery
Drift Map World
Julia-Kristina Bauer
Transforming Cities : On the passage of Situationist dérive
David Pinder
Road Drift
Nicolas Whybrow
Drawing, Adrift : Bengaluru – Mumbai – St Ives
Cathy Turner
Where to build walls that protect us
Stephen Hodge
Walking Library for a Wild City
Deirdre (Dee) Heddon, Misha Myers
Radiant Futures
Laura Grace Ford
New York Drifters : Tehching Hsieh and David Wojnarowicz
Jack Parlett
Gender Drift : Testo Junkie, queer performativity and molecular becoming
Stephen Greer
To Drift, to Wave, to Waive
Marielle Pelissero
Drifting and Cruising
Glyn Davis
Drifting with Direction : Going astray in Jean Genet
Joanne Brueton
Queer Spiritual Drifting : Not at home in The Beguinage
Petra Kuppers
Drifting across the Border : On the radical potential of undocumented im/migrant activism in the US
Ana Milena Ribero
Invitation to Drift
Amy Sharrocks
Indexing the Drift
Bob Hardy
From Street to Screen : Debord’s drifting cinema
David Archibald, Carl Lavery
Louphole : Drifting with wolves
Simon Whitehead
Field Guides
Mike Pearson
Erratic Drift : notes towards human-geologicaldrifting
Minty Donald, Nick Millar
The Perturbations of Drift in a Stratified World
Deborah Dixon
Drift as a Planetary Phenomenon
Bronislaw Szerszynski
