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It is still flattering to be misquoted, but when it is an answer to a question, and when it is the questioner who misquotes, one ought to be forgiven for thinking that the question was less leading than that the answer was altogether beside the point. ‘Simon Taylor’ does not

a further reply (see post below), posted on the principle of: qui peut, qui fait

…which is further to say that such momentum as performance picks up from critical theory is fixed at the subrepresentational stage of performance itself, theatre always being first and foremost its own best diagnostician. (This is why bad theatre really tells you how bad things can get, that they can

a reply to a comment on a previous post (see theatricalisation and so on) posted here for purposes of illustration

…the unleashing of all manner of miniature egos across the various divides, figuring large, the subject/object divide, the slippages of shifters, signifiers, I’s and You’s, and ‘its;’ the latter in place as if placed there, staged, as contemplative souls of the matters in hand, passing hand to

a snigger behind the glee, for Apples

– Condom Alley, 13.8.09

theatricalisation of everyday life: theatrum mundi

With an autonomy of its own, performance spreads by deconstruction not only from theatre to other disciplines but across the binaries of art and life, picking up momentum from critical theory – obsessed as it is with the “overflows, leaks, shifts, slips” and eroticised staging of dispersion itself, which cancels aesthetic

elisions

I don’t even know if I am here, today. I’m staring into space, trying to summon up the energy to leave the sun on the step behind and come inside and write this. I’m thinking about these things, my mind sliding from one to the other and

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