Cybernetic-Existentialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cybernetic-Existentialism write by Steve Dixon. This book was released on 2019-11-14. Cybernetic-Existentialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the ‘universal science’ of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art. In this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists’ works reveal the ideas of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others. Simultaneously, these artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson on information theory and ‘noise’, feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. Dixon’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledge from these two fields can throw new light on pressing issues within contemporary arts and culture, including authenticity, angst and alienation, homeostasis, radical politics, and the human as system.
Authentic Leadership Revisited
Authentic Leadership Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authentic Leadership Revisited write by Neil Thompson. This book was released on 2024-08-06. Authentic Leadership Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important book successfully blends theory and practice to address authentic leadership from a non-essentialist angle. Drawing extensively on existentialist philosophy, it presents an alternative understanding of authenticity that challenges the essentialist notion of selfhood.
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology write by Ester Fuoco. This book was released on 2024-10-14. Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system. This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and communicate beyond spatial and temporal boundaries, wars, and pandemics, through artistic deviations carried out by machines and through the Extended Reality. Through the lens of anthropology and aesthetics, this study selects useful case studies to demonstrate this phenomenon of performative symphonises, in which the experimentation of AI-driven creativity and the new human-robot interaction (HRI) lead to philosophical inquiries about the nature of creativity, intelligence, and the definition of art itself. These shifts in paradigms invite us to reconsider established concepts and explore new perspectives on the relationship between technology, art, and the human experience. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, anthropology, and digital humanities.
Staging Decadence
Staging Decadence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Decadence write by Adam Alston. This book was released on 2023-09-07. Staging Decadence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How is decadence being staged today as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse and what might lie in its wake.
New Perspectives in Psychology
New Perspectives in Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives in Psychology write by Gabriela M. Barrios. This book was released on 1992. New Perspectives in Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
