On Dialectics provides a platform for articles, performative essays and artist’s pages that focus on the interrelations between dialectics and performance, and a space to reflect on how dialectical methods have been or can be applied in theatre and performance theory and practice. This issue asks how a theory of flux, contradiction and becoming might be particularly vital to the study of the contemporary performance industry in an era of increased global socio-economic instability. When thinking of alternatives to neoliberalism in the sphere of cultural production, why might scholars and practitioners recuperate a praxis that places fracture and antagonism at its very heart? How might the playful and dialogic engagement that dialectics promotes speak to the creation, process and experience of contemporary cultural activity? Is performance inherently dialectical, or dialectics inherently performative?<\/p>\n
On Dialectics
\nEleanor Massie, Philip Watkinson<\/p>\n
Dialectics and the Brechtian Tradition\u2009: Some thoughts on politicized performance
\nDavid Barnett<\/p>\n
Brecht\u2019s Gale\u2009: Innovation and postdramatic theatre
\nMichael Shane Boyle<\/p>\n
A Trialectical Cusp: Between the Real and the Represented\u2009: At the Bus Stop in SPID Theatre Company\u2019s 23176
\nKatie Beswick<\/p>\n
Materiality as Performance\u2009: Blurring the boundaries between the real and the imagined
\nCecilie Sachs Olsen<\/p>\n
Constructing Dialectical Images in Sound and Space\u2009: Adapting Walter Benjamin\u2019s The Arcades Project
\nCampbell Edinborough<\/p>\n
A Note on Spatial Dialectics
\nMichal Kobialka<\/p>\n
Heterotopia as Choreography\u2009: Foucault\u2019s sailing vessel
\nArabella Stanger<\/p>\n
On the Dialectics of Charisma in Marina Abramovi\u0107\u2019s The Artist is Present
\nAdele Senior, Simon Kelly<\/p>\n
Violence in Martial Arts Actor Training\u2009: A dialectical view
\nEve Wedderburn<\/p>\n
Subvert\/Reinscribe\u2009: Reading self-consciously employed stereotypes through performativity
\nKee-Yoon Nahm<\/p>\n
Soil\u2009: Crisis, the cultural commons and performing South-east Asia in America
\nMichael Sakamoto<\/p>\n
The Schizoid Dialectic\u2009: Theses on winning the Union back
\nGary Anderson, John Bennett, Steven Shakespeare<\/p>\n
Weird Seance Extras (Revisited) \u2013 artist\u2019s pages
\nDaniel Oliver<\/p>\n
Resisting Dispossession: Affective Alliances Labouring for Justice (review)
\nKristin Flade<\/p>\n
Debating the Future of the Left, or Why We Should Perform the Arts as Tactics and Not as Instrumental Logic (review)
\nMarilena Zaroulia<\/p>\n\n\n