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dc.contributor.advisorChow, B. D. V.-
dc.contributor.advisorRichards, M-
dc.contributor.authorMakka, Louiza-
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-18T13:29:11Z-
dc.date.available2019-03-18T13:29:11Z-
dc.date.issued2019-
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17720-
dc.descriptionThis thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University Londonen_US
dc.description.abstractLiving through the aftermath of the time of crisis, the present research raises the question of the relationship between the ‘performative’ and the ‘political’. Drawing upon philosophical discourses of agonism, autonomy and democracy the research sets out to achieve an understanding of the political nature of performance, one that renders the Evental ‘We’ at the centre of the political praxis focusing particularly on the Greek case. In engaging with the conception of democracy as a ‘tragic regime’, as Cornelius Castoriadis suggests, each of the chapters discusses the various aspects of radical practices and performances of resistance that emerge offering a series of analyses on both the aesthetic and political practice of agon. Thus, the question of ‘how can theatre and performance become praxis’ frames the thematic premise of this research oriented by the demand for a radical and direct democracy. In doing so, the research is mostly concerned with reflecting on the various forms of the ‘political’ as articulated in participatory practices that engage the social, as seen for example in the work of Rimini Protokoll and Dries Verhoeven, and as embodied in modes of resistance that sparked the protests in Athens during 2010. ‘Staging’ the project of autonomy, at both individual and social levels, the research offers a critical reading of the occupied Embros theatre in Athens as a main case study, which inspired political activism reflecting on social imaginary significations. While such an experiment did not do much in transforming the lethargic conditions of our times; it nevertheless, remains valuable in confronting us with the limits of the ‘tragic’ regime of democracy suggesting a continuous process of agon and constant displacement. Placing the relationship between art and philosophy at the core of this project, the research serves as an inquiry into the emerging field of Performance Philosophy.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGreek State Scholarships Foundationen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBrunel University Londonen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/17720/1/FulltextThesis.pdf-
dc.subjectSocial praxisen_US
dc.subjectSocial imaginaryen_US
dc.subjectCastoriadisen_US
dc.subjectAntagonismen_US
dc.subjectPerformance philosophyen_US
dc.titlePerforming agonism: democracy in crisis and the project of autonomy in art’s social turnen_US
dc.title.alternativePerforming agonismen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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