Performing Antagonism

1. Introduction: Performance and the Tragic Politics of the Agōn

Tony Fisher

2. Tragedy’s Philosophy
Simon Critchley

3. Tragedy: Maternity, Natality, Theatricality
Olga Taxidou

4. Parterre: Olympic Wrestling, National Identities, and the Theatre of Agonism
Broderick D. V. Chow

5. ‘An Actor, But in Life’: Spectatorial Consciousness and Materialist Theatre: Some Notes Apropos Althusser
Peter M. Boenisch

6. Is This What Democracy Looks Like? The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics
Theron Schmidt

7. Performing Protest: Occupation, Antagonism and Radical Democracy
Pollyanna Ruiz

8. A Life Not Worth Living: On the Economy of Vulnerability and Powerlessness in Political Suicide
Eve Katsouraki

9. Collective Horizons: Rethinking the Performative and Political: (Im)Possibilities of Being Together
Gigi Argyropoulou

10. On the Performance of ‘Dissensual Speech’
Tony Fisher

11. Remote Spectating: Drone Images and the Spectacular Image of Revolt
Fred Dalmasso

12. Antagonising the Limits of Critique
Rachel Cockburn

13. The Political Dimension of Dance: Mouffe’s Theory of Agonism and Choreography
Goran Petrović Lotina

14. The Art of Unsolicited Participation
Sruti Bala

15. Epilogue: The ‘Trojan Horse’—Or, from Antagonism to the Politics of Resilience
Eve Katsouraki

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Political Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Political Sociology