The Concept of the New: Framing Production and Value in Contemporary Performing Arts

Contents

• Chapter I * On the New in Social Sciences
• 1. 1 The new as unknown: the recognition of novelty in the Social Sciences
• 1. 2 The production of innovation and its temporal dimension
• 1.2. 1 The production of innovation, its purpose and its critique
• 1.2. 2 Critical innovation studies
• 1. 3 Perspectives from Sociology of Art: the collective aspect and the impossibility of NoveltyChapter II * On the New in Humanities
• 2. 1 On difference, memory and obscurity: the recognition of novelty in Humanities
• 2.2. Difference, space and time: the production of the new
• 2.2. 1 The time of the new
• 2.2. 2 The spaces of the New
• 2. 3 Duration and value
• 2.3. 1 The problem of valueChapter III * On the New in the Present
• 3. 1 Some notes on the Avantgarde
• 3. 2 Postmodernism and the future
• 3. 3 The affirmation of creativity and its critique
• 3.3. 1 The critique to creativity: partial answers to the problem
• Chapter IV * On the traces of the New in the Theatre of the Present
• 4. 1 Today's theatre across reality and fiction
• 4. 2 The institutional critique yet to come
• 4. 3 Open conclusions on theory and practice: where to start
• Chapter V * Empirical Research on the New: methodology
• 5. 1 Balancing theory and empirical research: abduction and qualitative methods
• 5. 2 Objectives and research questions
• 5. 3 Sampling and data collection
• 5. 4 Data analysis
• Chapter VI * The New in the Theatre of the Present
• 6. 1 The Notion of New and its relevance in the field
• 6.1. 1 The Difference of the New in the Field
• 6.1. 2 The New as Incomplete
• 6.1. 3 The Ephemeral New and its Eternity
• 6. 2 From the Concept of New to its Production: escaping directionality
• 6.2. 1 The Production of the New: a Co-Existence of Differences
• 6.2. 2 Envisioning Production: suspension and self-betrayal
• 6. 3 On the system and its value(s)
• 6.3. 1 Perspectives on the System and Ways out of its Reproduction
• 6. 4 On Art and Politics: values and roles
• Chapter VII * Rethinking Production as a Step towards the Incomplete
• 7. 1 On paradigms and politics: institutions as frames
• 7. 2 The collective cultivation of difference: autonomy and conflict
• 7. 3 On clarity, obscurity and indeterminacy
• 7. 4 On roles and rules: impossible possibilia
• 7. 5 On products and failure
• 7. 6 On progress and time: the reconceptualization of production