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008			200511s2020 cau o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2020938428
020			_a9781950192892
020			_z9781950192885
035			_a(OCoLC)1195487324
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aRizzo, Jessica, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWaste : _bCapitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater / _cJessica Rizzo.
264		1	_aSanta Barbara : _bPunctum Books, _c2020.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2020
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (176 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed of herself, to experience herself as excess, the waster and the waste of the world. By examining theatrical representations of capitalism, war, climate change, and the permanent refugee crisis, Waste traces the ways in which these human contributions signal a tendency toward prodigality that terminates with self-destruction. Defying its promise of abundance for all, capitalism poisons all relationships with competition and fear. The desire to dominate in war is revealed to be the desire to obliterate the self in collective conflagration. The refugee crisis raises the urgent question of our responsibility to the other, but the climate crisis renders all anthropocentric questions moot.Waste proposes that the theater is the form best suited to confronting the human's perverse relationship to her finitude. Everything about the theater is suffused with existential shame, with an acute awareness of its provisionality. Unlike the dominant narrative of the human, which is bound up with a fantasy of infinite growth, the theater is not deluded about its nature, origins, and destiny. At its best, the theater gathers artist and audience in one space to die together for a little while, to consciously waste, not spend, their time"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/77433/
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