Sneak Peak: Adorno and Performance

[Will Daddario]

Hello to all members of the Adorno group. I'm sorry that I haven't been posting much here over the last year, but the silence was not due to lack of thought.

Karoline Gritzner and I have been editing Adorno and Performance, an anthology to be published by Palgrave as part of the Performance Philosophy book series. 

The table of contents will hopefully entice you! We hope you'll look for the book when it comes out in late summer/early fall 2014:

Adorno and Performance

Tentative Order of Chapters 

1. “Introduction: Thinking Adorno and Performance” – Will Daddario and Karoline Gritzner

2. “Of Adorno’s Beckett” – Michal Kobialka

3. “Thoughts that do not understand themselves” – Karoline Gritzner

4. “Performativisation and the rescue of the aesthetic semblance” – Andrea Sakoparnig

5. “On the ‘difference between preaching an ideal and giving artistic form to the historical tension inherent in it’” – Mischa Twitchin

6. “Cooking up a theory of performing” —Anthony Gritten

7. “Thinking Performance in Neoliberal Times: Adorno Encounters Neutral Hero” - Ioana Jucan

8. “Pleasing shapes and other devilry: an Adornian investigation of La Pocha Nostra praxis” — Stephen Robins

9. “Thinking – Mimesis – Pre-Imitation: Notes on art, philosophy and theatre in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory” – Marcus Quent

10. “Theatricality of Art” — Anja Nowak

11. “Adorno and Performance: Thinking with the Movement of Language” – Birgit Hofstaetter

12. “What is Adorno Doing? Immanent Critique as Philosophical Performance” – Mattias Martinson

13. “The Vanity of Happiness: Adorno and Self-Performance” – Julie Kuhlken 

14. “Writing as Life Performed” – Martin Dixon