Theatre and the Virtual

<p><em>Theatre and the Virtual</em> lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of theatrical potentiality. </p><p>Creating a passage towards a reconstitution of the given a theatre of the virtual opens bodies in motion to a region of an ongoing genesis of forces. The outcome: regimes of constraint are abandoned through a radical practice of ecological attunement. Violence is eschewed through an onto-ecology of touch. Closed systems are repotentialised to become co-constitutive of their environments. A logic of spectrality settles in—not so much entities as atmospheres not so much a being as a style of being not so much a body as multitudinous milieus of response. This is the task of a theatre of the virtual—to safeguard the possibility of the extra-epistemological and uphold one’s right to offer accounts of oneself from outside of being all the while creating a fractured record of the wondrous mutations of a moving gesturing body.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre philosophy new materialisms environmental humanities gesture and the ontology of response.</p>