Adorno Performance/Philosophy Bibliography

[Will Daddario]

I think it would be a good idea if we started compiling a bibliography of sources dedicated to exploring Adorno's thoughts on/for performance. Please add any and all sources, in whatever language, so that we can get a glimpse of this sub-field. Thanks.

I have published one article on the topic: Daddario, Will. "From Pseudo-Activity to Critique: Adorno, Philosophy, Participation." Performance Research 16.4 (2011): 124-135.

[Drew Milne]

Great title, I'll seek that out. I've posted notes about an essay I published in 2007, but is it easier to set up a mini bibliography on Adorno and performance in the main bibliography for this site?

[Will Daddario]

My preference would be to compile titles here and then, once the bibliography is fleshed out a bit, we paste the entire thing on the main bibliography site. Is that ok? What's the citation info for your 2007 essay?

[Drew Milne]

Hi there: here are some of efforts, all of which have Adorno angles in them.

Drew Milne, 'Processual Performance: Critical Notes on Adorno's Autonomous Artwork', in As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century, eds. Matthew Beaumont, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie and John Roberts (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 347-366.

Drew Milne, 'Drama in the culture industry: British theatre after 1945', in British Culture of the Postwar: an introduction to literature and society 1945-1999, eds. Alistair Davies and Alan Sinfield (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 169-191

Drew Milne, "The Performance of Scepticism", act 3: 'Endgames', eds. Juliet Steyn and John Gange (London: Pluto, 1997), 50-76.

Drew Milne, "Theatre as communicative action: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed", Comparative Criticism, 14 (1992), 111-134.

[Anja Nowak]

I'm so excited to find this page, this group and especially your articles... I'm very much looking forward to reading them! I published a book on Adorno and theatre some weeks ago. Unfortunately it's in German... But anyway: Nowak, Anja. Elemente einer Ästhetik des Theatralen in Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 

[Will Daddario]

Thanks, Anja. I'm excited to see that you've joined this group!

Anja Nowak said:

I'm so excited to find this page, this group and especially your articles... I'm very much looking forward to reading them! I published a book on Adorno and theatre some weeks ago. Unfortunately it's in German... But anyway: Nowak, Anja. Elemente einer Ästhetik des Theatralen in Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 

[Frank M C Kuehn]

Hi Will, 

please take a look at my page at <worldwideweb dot unesp dot academia dot edu/fmc/> where you can find the link to my doctoral thesis on Adorno's Theory of Musical Reproduction [2010], added together with some papers of my performance research - unfortunately all of them in [Brazilian] portuguese. Regards, Frank.