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[Ralph Dumain]

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Subject: 	CFP: Adorno and Performance
Date: 	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:48:01 -0500
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Adorno and Performance

Editors: Will Daddario and Karoline Gritzner

Call for Abstracts

The editors of Adorno and Performance seek proposals for essays that work
through Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy as it relates to theatre, drama,
music, aesthetics, everyday life, the relation of art to society, theory
to practice, and other domains of ‘performance’. This collection will
attempt to critique existing understandings of performance in multiple
fields, such as the performing arts, arts administration, the social and
political sciences, literature, linguistics, philosophy, etc. The glue
binding together the various understandings of the term ‘performance’ is
Adorno’s life work of critical theory, which itself turns its negative
dialectical practice on these diverse fields of study, returning again and
again to the arenas of performance and theatricality as perhaps best
exemplified in Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction and Aesthetic
Theory.

Essays may explore topics such as:

-          The implications of Adorno’s philosophy of nonidentity and his
aesthetic theory for theatre, drama, music and performance studies

-          Applications of Adornian thought to the analysis of performance

-          Negative dialectics and immanent criticism: their roles in
interpreting performance

-          How renewed investigations into key Adornian terminology
(mimesis, expression, art’s enigmatic character, truth content, natural
beauty, semblance, logic of disintegration, etc.) might help to reappraise
central concepts within and across the disciplines of performance, theatre
and drama studies, musicology, the social sciences, etc.

-          Critiques of the Culture Industry and performance studies:
challenges to the state of the profession

-          Adorno’s social criticism (his critique of the performance of
individuality, expression and experience in the Culture Industry)

-          Adorno’s theory of musical reproduction (the relation between
musical text and performance)

-          Adorno as composer

-          Adorno’s writings on drama and theatre (Brecht, Beckett),
performance (happenings), opera, the intermedialisation (Verfransung) of
the arts, etc.

We are in the process of securing a publishing agreement for this
anthology, which will be part of a new book series linked to the
international research network PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY
(http://performancephilosophy.ning.com).


Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words and a short biographical
note to both editors, Will Daddario (w.daddario at gmail.com) and Karoline
Gritzner (kgg at aber.ac.uk) by October 31, 2012.