Žižek and Performance

1. Introduction: Performing Žižek: Hegel, Lacan, Marx, and the Parallax View
Alex Mangold

2. The Lacanian Performative: Austin after Žižek
Geoff Boucher

3. Kantor’s Symptom or Grotowski’s Fantasy? Towards a Theatre of the Political
Bryce Lease

4. Who’s Watching? Me!: Theatrality, Spectatorship, and the Žižekian Subject
Peter M. Boenisch

5. Žižek’s Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace, and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director’s Subjectivity
Eve Katsouraki

6. ‘Even if we do not take things seriously … we are still doing them’: Disidentification, Ideology, and Queer Performance
Stephen Greer

7. The Performative Constitution of Liberal Totalitarianism on Facebook
Natasha Lushetich

8. Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour
Graham Wolfe

9. ‘There are more of you than there are of us’: Forced Entertainment and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject
Linda Taylor

10. Ideology and the True/False Performance of Heritage
Paul Johnson

11. Getting Involved with the Neighbour’s Thing: Žižek and the Participatory Performance of Reactor (UK)
Daniel Oliver

12. Dancing with Žižek: Sublime Objets and the Hollywood Dance Film
Melissa Blanco Borelli

13. ‘Actual Idiocy’ and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle
Dave Calvert

14. Theatre’s Immediacy: Notes on Performing ‘with’ Žižek
Patrick Duggan

15. Collaboration, Violence, and Difference
Simon Ellis, Colin Poole

16. The Tickling Object: On Žižek and Comedy
Broderick Chow

17. Notes on Performing, Its Frame, and Its Gaze
Slavoj Žižek

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Philosophy, general, Theatre History, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies