Reality principles : from the absurd to the virtual /

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Author / Creator:Blau, Herbert.
Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
Description:292 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8441742
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ISBN:9780472071517 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0472071513 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780472051519 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0472051512 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Relevance: the shadow of a magnitude
  • The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd
  • The soul-complex of Strindberg: suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer
  • From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater
  • Performing the chaosmos: farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze
  • Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough
  • Who's there? community of the question
  • The emotional memory of directing
  • The commodius vicus of Beckett: vicissitudes of the arts in the science of affliction
  • Among the deepening shades: the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest
  • Apnea and true illusion: breath(less) in Beckett
  • Art and crisis: homeland security and the noble savage
  • Ground zero: the original vision (may 16, 2008)
  • Blessings to the pope and the witch
  • The pathos of dialogue: unable to speak a word
  • Thinking history, history thinking
  • Why "what history?"
  • The human nature of the bot
  • Virtually yours: presence, liveness, lessness
  • Auto archive.