Module Bibliography

A useful contextual bibliography for the course in supplementary materials is available

below but emphasis should be on the SELECTED weekly reading listed in the class schedule
week by week.

Further Actions to Take Prior to Start of Class:

Performance Philosophy Network (Free Registration)

Just to ensure you do not think you are alone in this enterprise I would like each of you to
register with the on-line resource, the Performance Philosophy network recently established
by Dr Laura Cull. I have known Laura for some years and examined her PhD on
Performance and the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze a few years ago. She is
the editor of a new series of books on Performance and Philosophy, and we will be
exploring some of those texts during the module.

Laura has established this site for those interested in this developing field:

http://performancephilosophy.ning.com

There are currently about 2500 members.

Once in, have a look around the site to see the kinds of groups and ideas that are emerging
and maybe consider forming a group: Performance Philosophy Class, King's, 2022.

Module Outline Schedule Available on Keats In 2nd Week of January.

Supplementary Course Bibliography

These books are NOT essential reading (that is found week by week in the schedule and My
Reading Lists and as directed) but these books will help you when it comes to focusing your
essay topics. All students should familiarise themselves with the journals collection and
open shelf stacks at Senate House Library on Russell Square ten minutes walk from King's,
prior to the third week of the semester:

https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library

Useful Edited Collections

Banes, Sally, and André Lepecki, eds, The Senses in Performance (New York and London:
Routledge, 2006)

Bishop, Claire, ed., Participation (London: Whitechapel, 2006)

Cull, Laura, ed., Deleuze and Performance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009)

Davis, Tracy C., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008)

Gade, Rune, and Anne Jerslev, eds, Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and
Media (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005)

Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds, The Affect Theory Reader (Durham NC: Duke
University Press, 2010)

Heathfield, Adrian, ed., Live: Art and Performance (London: Tate Publishing, 2004)

Kelleher, Joe, and Nicholas Ridout, eds, Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical
Companion (New York and London: Routledge, 2006)


Krasner, David, and David Z. Saltz, eds, Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater,
Performance, and Philosophy (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006)


Murray, Timothy, ed., Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in
Contemporary French Thought (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997)


Reinelt, Janelle G., and Joseph R. Roach, eds, Critical Theory and Performance, rev. and enl.
Edn (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)

Zarrilli, Phillip B., ed., Acting (Re)considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide, 2nd edn (New
York and London: Routledge, 2002)

Other sources

Agamben, Giorgio, The Coming Community [La comunità che viene, 1990], trans. by Michael
Hardt, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993)

-----, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, trans. by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1999)

-----, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, trans. by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000)

Austin, J. L., How to Do Things with Words, ed. by J. O. Urmson (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1965)

Austin, Julia, and Claire Bishop, 'Trauma, Antagonism and the Bodies of Others: A Dialogue
on Delegated Performance', Performance Paradigm, 5.1 (2009)
<http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-51/interview/trauma-antagonism-
and-the- bodies-of-others-a-dialogue-on-delegated-performance/> [accessed 10 February
2011]

Ayers, Robert, '"The knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real." Robert Ayers
in
c s w h ' (2010) <h p://www. skyf w hsh s s.c / wordpress/?p=1197> [accessed 10 February
2011]

Badiou, Alain, Handbook of Inaesthetics, trans. by Alberto Toscano (Stanford CA: Stanford
University Press, 2005)

-----, 'Rhapsody for the Theatre: A Short Philosophical Treatise', Theatre Survey, 49.02 (2008),
187- 238

Bailes, Sara Jane, Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure: Forced Entertainment, Goat
Island, Elevator Repair Service (New York and London: Routledge, 2011)

Banes, Sally, and André Lepecki, eds, The Senses in Performance (New York and London:
Routledge, 2006)

Barish, Jonas, The Antitheatrical Prejudice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981)

Beech, Dave, 'Include Me Out!', Art Monthly, 315 (April 2008), pp. 1-4

Benjamin, Walter, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' [1935], trans. by
Harry Zohn, in Illuminations, ed. by Hannah Arendt (London: Cape, 1970), pp. 219-53
Bennett, Susan, Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (New York and
London: Routledge, 1990)

Billington, Michael, 'Terror of modern times sets the stage for Greek tragedy', Guardian, 19
June 2004 <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/review/0,,1242634,00.html> [accessed 10
February 2011]

Bishop, Claire, Installation Art: A Critical History (London: Tate, 2005)

-----, 'The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents', Artforum (February 2006), pp. 178-
83

-----, Artificial Hells: Participatory art and the politics of spectatorship (London and New York:
Verso, 2012)

-----, ed., Participation (London: Whitechapel, 2006)

Bishop, Claire, and Silvia Tramontana, eds, Double Agent (London: ICA, 2009)

Blau, Herbert, 'Odd, Anonymous Needs: The Audience in a Dramatized Society' [part
1], Performing Arts Journal, 9.2/3 (1985), 199-212

-----, 'Odd, Anonymous Needs: The Audience in a Dramatized Society' [part 2], Performing
Arts Journal, 10.1 (1986), 34-42

Botham, Paola, 'From Deconstruction to Reconstruction: A Habermasian Framework for

Contemporary Political Theatre', Contemporary Theatre Review, 18.3 (2008), 307-17

Bottoms, Stephen, 'Authorizing the Audience: The Conceptual Drama of Tim

Crouch', Performance Research, 14.1 (2009), 65-76

-----, 'Materialising the Audience: Tim Crouch's Sight Specifics in ENGLAND and The
Author', Contemporary Theatre Review, 21.4 (2011), 445-63

Bottoms, Stephen, and Matthew Goulish, eds, Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology, and
Goat Island (New York and London: Routledge, 2007)

Bourriaud, Nicolas, Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World,
trans. by Jeanine Herman (New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2000)

-----, Relational Aesthetics [Esthétique relationnelle, 1998], trans. by Simon Pleasance and
Fronza Woods (Dijon: Presses du reél, 2002)

Butler, Judith, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York and London:
Routledge, 1997)

Carlson, Marla, 'Marina Abramovic Repeats: Pain, Art, and Theater', Hotreview.org (2005)
<http://www.hotreview.org/articles/marinaabram.htm> [accessed 7 March 2011]

-----, Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Carlson, Marvin, Performance: A Critical Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 1996)

Conroy, Colette, Theatre & the Body (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Counsell, Colin, and Laurie Wolf, Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook (New York
and London: Routledge, 2001)
Crouch, Tim, ENGLAND: A Play for Galleries (London: Oberon, 2007)

-----, 'The Author: Response and Responsibility', Contemporary Theatre Review, 21.4 (2011),
416-22

Cull, Laura, 'How Do You Make Yourself a Theatre without Organs? Deleuze, Artaud and the
Concept of Differential Presence', Theatre Research International, 34.3 (2009), 243-55

-----, Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the ethics of performance (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012)

-----, ed., Deleuze and Performance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Davis, Tracy
C., 'Theatricality and Civil Society', in Theatricality, ed. by Tracy C. Davis and Thomas
Postlewait (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 127-55

-----, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008)

Debord, Guy, The Society of the Spectacle [La Société du spectacle, 1967], trans. by Donald
Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1994)

Defraeye, Piet, 'You! Hypocrite Spectateur. A Short History of the Production and Reception
of Peter Handke's Publikumsbeschimpfung', Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 42.4
(2006), 412-38

Deleuze, Gilles, 'One Less Manifesto', trans. by Eliane dal Molin and Timothy Murray, in The
Deleuze Reader, ed. by Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993),
pp. 239-58

Derrida, Jacques, Of Grammatology [1967], trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, corrected

edn (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

Diamond, Elin, Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater (New York and London:
Routledge, 1997)

-----, 'The Violence of "We": Politicizing Identification' [1991], in Critical Theory and
Performance, rev. and enl. edn, ed. by Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 403-12

Dolan, Jill, Theatre & Sexuality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Downey, Anthony, 'Towards a Politics of (Relational) Aesthetics', Third Text, 21.3 (2007), 267-
75

Dwyer, Paul, 'Recasting the Political in Performance: An Introduction to Recent Critical

Trends', About Performance, 9 (2009), 7-14

Easterling, P. E., 'A Show for Dionysus', in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. by
P. E. Easterling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 36-53

-----, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1997)

Erickson, Jon, 'Philosophy and Theory', Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 16.1 (2001),
143- 48
Etchells, Tim, Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment (New
York and London: Routledge, 1999)

-----, 'Step Off The Stage', in The Live Art Almanac, ed. by Daniel Brine (London: Live Art
Development Agency, 2008), pp. 7-16

Féral, Josette, 'Performance and Theatricality: The Subject Demystified', trans. by Terese
Lyons, Modern Drama, 25.1 (1982), 170-81

Fischer-Lichte, Erika, The Semiotics of Theater [Semiotik des Theaters, 1983], trans. by Jeremy
Gaines and Doris L. Jones (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992)

Forrest, Tara, 'Mobilizing the Public Sphere: Schlingensief's Reality Theatre', Contemporary
Theatre Review, 18.1 (2008), 90-98

Forrest, Tara, and Anna Teresa Scheer, eds, Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without
Borders (Bristol: Intellect, 2010)

Fortier, Mark, Theory/Theatre: An Introduction, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2002)

Foster, Susan Leigh, 'Kinesthetic Empathies and the Politics of Compassion', in Critical Theory
and Performance, rev. and enl. edn, ed. by Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 245-57

Freshwater, Helen, Theatre & Audience (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
-----, '"You
Say Something": Audience Participation and The Author', Contemporary Theatre Review,
21.4 (2011), 405-09

Fried, Michael, 'Art and Objecthood' [1967], in Art and Objecthood: Essays and
Reviews (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998), pp. 148-72

Gade, Rune, and Anne Jerslev, eds, Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and
Media (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005)

Goode, Chris, '"How we are together": An Endless Conversation with Tim Crouch and a
smith', 19 December 2009 (2009) <http://beescope.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-we-are-
together- endless.html> [accessed 10 February 2011]

Gorman, Sarah, 'Refusing Shorthand: Richard Maxwell', Contemporary Theatre Review, 17.2
(2007), 235-41

-----, The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players (London: Routledge, 2011)

Goulish, Matthew, 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance (New York and London:

Routledge, 2000)

Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds, The Affect Theory Reader (Durham NC: Duke
University Press, 2010)

Habermas, Jürgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere [Strukturwandel der
Öffenlicheit, 1962], trans. by Thomas Burger (Oxford: Polity, 1992)

Handke, Peter, Plays: 1: Offending the Audience, Self-accusation, Kaspar, My Foot My Tutor,
The Ride Across Lake Constance, They Are Dying Out (London: Methuen Drama, 1997)

Harpin, Anna, 'Intolerable Acts', Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 16.1,
(2011), 102-11
Heathfield, Adrian, ed., Live: Art and Performance (London: Tate Publishing, 2004)

Jackson, Shannon, Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics (New York and London:
Routledge, 2011)

Jones, Amelia, '"The Artist is Present": Artistic Re-enactments and the Impossibility of
Presence', TDR: The Drama Review, 55.1 (2011), 16-45

Jones, Amelia, and Adrian Heathfield, eds, Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History (London:
Intellect/Live Art Development Agency, 2012)

Kear, Adrian, 'Troublesome Amateurs: Theatre, Ethics and the Labour of

Mimesis', Performance Research, 10.1 (2005), 26-46

-----, 'Intensities of Appearance', Performance Research, 13.4 (2008), 16-24


Keidan, Lois, and CJ Mitchell, eds, Access All Areas: Live Art and Disability (London: Live Art,
Development Agency, 2012)

Kelleher, Joe, Theatre & Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Kelleher, Joe, and Nicholas Ridout, eds, Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical
Companion (New York and London: Routledge, 2006)

Kershaw, Baz, The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard (New York and
London: Routledge, 1999)

Kirby, Michael, 'On Acting and Not-Acting', TDR: The Drama Review, 16.1 (1972), 3-15


Krasner, David, and David Z. Saltz, eds, Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater,
Performance, and Philosophy (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006)

Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 'Diderot: Paradox and Mimesis' [1980], trans. by Jane Popp,
in Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp.
248-66

Lehmann, Hans-Thies, Postdramatic Theatre [Postdramatisches Theater, 1999], trans. by Karen

Jürs- Munby (New York and London: Routledge, 2006)

Marshall, David, 'Rousseau and the State of Theater', Representations, 13 (Winter 1986), 84-
114

Martin, Stewart, 'Critique of Relational Aesthetics', Third Text, 21.4 (2007), 369-86

Miglietti (FAM), Francesca Alfano, Extreme Bodies: The Use and Abuse of the Body in Art, trans.
by Antony Shugaar (Milan: Skira, 2003)

Monks, Aoife, The Actor in Costume (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)


Mouffe, Chantal, 'Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces', Art and Research: A Journal of Ideas,
Contexts and Methods, 1.2 (2007)

<http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v1n2/mouffe.html>

Murray, Timothy, ed., Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in
Contemporary French Thought (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
Nancy, Jean-Luc, The Inoperative Community [La communauté désoeuvrée, 1986], trans. by
Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland and Simona Sawhney, ed. by Peter Connor
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991)

-----, Being Singular Plural [Être singulier pluriel, 1996], trans. by Robert D. Richardson and
Anne E. O'Byrne (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)

Negt, Oskar, and Alexander Kluge, 'The Public Sphere and Experience: Selections', trans. by
Peter Labanyi, October, 46 (1988), 60-82

Nield, Sophie, 'On the Border as Theatrical Space: Appearance, Dis-location and the
Production of the Refugee', in Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion, ed. by
Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 61-72

-----, 'The Rise of the Character Named Spectator', Contemporary Theatre Review, 18.4 (2008),
531- 35

O'Dell, Kathy, Contract with the skin: masochism, performance art, and the 1970s (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1998)

O'Doherty, Brian, Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, expanded edn
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999)

Puchner, Martin, 'Society of the Counter-Spectacle: Debord and the Theatre of the
Situationists', Theatre Research International, 29.1 (2004), 4-15

Rae, Paul, Theatre & Human Rights (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Rainer, Yvonne, 'A Quasi Survey of Some "Minimalist" Tendencies in the Quantitatively
Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or An Analysis of Trio A', in Minimal Art: A Critical
Anthology, ed. by Gregory Battcock (New York: Dutton, 1968), pp. 263-73

Rancière, Jacques, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy [La Mésentente, 1995], trans. by Julie
Rose (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)

-----, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible [Le partage du sensible: Esthétique
et politique, 2000], trans. by Gabriel Rockhill (London: Continuum, 2004)

-----, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, trans. by Steven Corcoran (London: Continuum,
2009)

Rayner, Alice, 'The Audience: Subjectivity, Community and the Ethics of Listening', Journal of
Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 7.2 (1993), 3-24

11

-----, Ghosts: Death's Double and the Phenomena Of Theatre (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2006)

Read, Alan, Theatre & Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance (New York and London:
Routledge, 1992)

-----, Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2008)

Reinelt, Janelle G., and Joseph R. Roach, eds, Critical Theory and Performance, rev. and enl.
edn (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
Ridout, Nicholas, Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006)

-----, 'Performance and Democracy', in The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies, ed.
by Tracy C. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 11-22

Roach, Joseph R., The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1993)

Roche, Jennifer, 'Socially Engaged Art, Critics and Discontents: An Interview with Claire
Bishop', Community Arts Network (2006) <http://wayback.archive-
it.org/2077/20100906203946/
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/07/socially_engage.php>
[accessed 1 October 2010]

Saltz, David Z., 'Why Performance Theory Needs Philosophy', Journal of Dramatic Theory and
Criticism, 16.1 (2001), 149-54

Schechner, Richard, Performance Theory, rev. and expanded edn (New York and London:
Routledge, 2003)

Schmidt, Theron, 'Richard Maxwell and the Paradox of Theatre', Platform, 3.1 (2008), 8-21

<http://www.rhul.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/documents/pdf/platform/31/maxwell.pdf>
[accessed 10 February 2011]

-----, 'Christoph Schlingensief and the Bad Spectacle', Performance Research, 16.4 (2011), 27-
33

Schneider, Rebecca, The Explicit Body in Performance (New York and London: Routledge,
1997)

-----, Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (New York and
London: Routledge, 2011)

Sennett, Richard, The Fall of Public Man (New York: Norton, 1992)

Shepherd, Simon, and Mick Wallis, Drama/Theatre/Performance (London: Routledge, 2004)

Silverman, Kaja, The Subject of Semiotics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983)

Smith, Adam, The Theory of Moral Sentiments [1759], ed. by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976)

Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others (London: Penguin, 2003)

States, Bert O., 'The Phenomenological Attitude', in Critical Theory and Performance, rev. and
enl. edn, ed. by Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2006), pp. 26-36

Stiles, Kristine, Klaus Biesenbach, and Chrissie Iles, eds, Marina Abramović (London: Phaidon,
2008)

Svich, Caridad, 'Tim Crouch's Theatrical Transformations: A Conversation with Caridad Svich'
(2006) <http://www.hotreview.org/articles/timcrouchinterv.htm> [accessed 10 February
2011]
Taplin, Oliver, Greek Tragedy in Action, 2nd edn (London and New York: Routledge, 2002)

Thompson, James, Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Varney, Denise, '"Right now Austria looks ridiculous": Please Love Austria! Reforging the
Interaction between Art and Politics', in Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders, ed. by
Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer (Bristol: Intellect, 2010), pp. 105-21

von Hantelmann, Dorothea, How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art's
Performativity (Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2010)

Warner, Michael, Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone Books, 2002)

Warr, Tracey, and Amelia Jones, The Artist's Body (London: Phaidon, 2000)

Wessendorf, Markus, 'Richard Maxwell's Postdramatic Theatre', (English version of 'Richard

Maxwell's postdramatiske teater', Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift [Oslo, January
2006], pp. 29-33) (2006) <http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wessendo/Maxwell.htm> [accessed 18
December 2006]

Wood, Catherine, Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (London: Afterall Books, 2007)


Zarrilli, Phillip B., ed., Acting (Re)considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide, 2nd edn (New
York and London: Routledge, 2002)

Zerihan, Rachel, 'Live Art Development Agency Study Room Guide on One to One
Performance' (2009)
<http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/Study_Room/guides/Rachel_Zerihan.html>
[accessed 10 February 2009]

-----, 'Revisiting Catharsis in Contemporary Live Art Practice: Kira O'Reilly's Evocative Skin
Works', Theatre Research International, 35.1 (2010), 32-42

Module Bibliography
A useful contextual bibliography for the course in supplementary materials is available
below but emphasis should be on the SELECTED weekly reading listed in the class schedule
week by week.
Further Actions to Take Prior to Start of Class:
Performance Philosophy Network (Free Registration)
Just to ensure you do not think you are alone in this enterprise I would like each of you to
register with the on-line resource, the Performance Philosophy network recently established
by Dr Laura Cull. I have known Laura for some years and examined her PhD on Performance
and the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze a few years ago. She is the editor of a
new series of books on Performance and Philosophy, and we will be exploring some of those
texts during the module.
Laura has established this site for those interested in this developing field:
http://performancephilosophy.ning.com
There are currently about 2500 members.
Once in, have a look around the site to see the kinds of groups and ideas that are emerging
and maybe consider forming a group: Performance Philosophy Class, King's, 2022.
Module Outline Schedule Available on Keats In 2nd Week of January.
Supplementary Course Bibliography
These books are NOT essential reading (that is found week by week in the schedule and My
Reading Lists and as directed) but these books will help you when it comes to focusing your
essay topics. All students should familiarise themselves with the journals collection and
open shelf stacks at Senate House Library on Russell Square ten minutes walk from King's,
prior to the third week of the semester:
https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library
Useful Edited Collections
Banes, Sally, and André Lepecki, eds, The Senses in Performance (New York and London:
Routledge, 2006)
Bishop, Claire, ed., Participation (London: Whitechapel, 2006)
Cull, Laura, ed., Deleuze and Performance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Davis, Tracy C., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Gade, Rune, and Anne Jerslev, eds, Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and
Media (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005)
Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds, The Affect Theory Reader (Durham NC: Duke
University Press, 2010)
Heathfield, Adrian, ed., Live: Art and Performance (London: Tate Publishing, 2004)

Kelleher, Joe, and Nicholas Ridout, eds, Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical
Companion (New York and London: Routledge, 2006)

Krasner, David, and David Z. Saltz, eds, Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater,
Performance, and Philosophy (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006)

Murray, Timothy, ed., Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in
Contemporary French Thought (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997)

Reinelt, Janelle G., and Joseph R. Roach, eds, Critical Theory and Performance, rev. and enl.
Edn (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
Zarrilli, Phillip B., ed., Acting (Re)considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide, 2nd edn
(New York and London: Routledge, 2002)
Other sources
Agamben, Giorgio, The Coming Community [La comunità che viene, 1990], trans. by Michael
Hardt, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993)
-----, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, trans. by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1999)
-----, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, trans. by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
Austin, J. L., How to Do Things with Words, ed. by J. O. Urmson (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1965)
Austin, Julia, and Claire Bishop, 'Trauma, Antagonism and the Bodies of Others: A Dialogue
on Delegated Performance', Performance Paradigm, 5.1 (2009)
<http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-51/interview/trauma-antagonism-
and-the- bodies-of-others-a-dialogue-on-delegated-performance/> [accessed 10 February
2011]
Ayers, Robert, '"The knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real." Robert Ayers
in
c s w h ' (2010) <h p://www. skyf w hsh s s.c / wordpress/?p=1197> [accessed 10
February 2011]
Badiou, Alain, Handbook of Inaesthetics, trans. by Alberto Toscano (Stanford CA: Stanford
University Press, 2005)
-----, 'Rhapsody for the Theatre: A Short Philosophical Treatise', Theatre Survey, 49.02
(2008), 187- 238
Bailes, Sara Jane, Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure: Forced Entertainment,
Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service (New York and London: Routledge, 2011)
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