Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction. The Virtual as a Theatrical Force
• Chapter 1. Potentiality and the Virtual
• The Depletion of Potentiality: Motion and Action
• Motion and Growth in the Poetics and Nāṭyaśāstra
• Other Forms
• Actual and Virtual
• Potentiality as an Ontological Horizon
• Chapter 2. Genesis and the Virtual
• Strandbeests
• Interfusing
• Theatre as a Technical Object
• Gestural Potentiality
• The Transducer
• Chapter 3. Violence and Touch
• Land of Palms
• The Technicity of Touch
• Violent Conditions
• Touch and Event
• Repotentialising Matter
• Engendering Practice: On Environmentality
• Chapter 4. Organism and Gesture
• Organism and the Field of Potentiality
• Diaphanous Organismicity
• Organism and Machine
• Omnia
• Response: Against Communication
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Index