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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/03/17 06:38, Alan Sondheim wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:alpine.NEB.2.20.1703191330080.14925@panix3.panix.com"
type="cite">Do you think of an 'underground' of any sort? As
resistance? (In other words, might the metaphor of 'theater' be in
need of deconstruction under real or potential totalitarianism?)
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These questions are gifts to one practicing Minus Theatre! But I
would like to hear other voices too. So briefly: Deleuze and
Guattari vociferously prefer the metaphor of the factory over that
of theatre in <i>Anti-Oedipus </i>(in which the critique of
capitalism as <i>axiomatic</i>, although it is developed contra
psychoanalytic legacies, is, in the latter half of the book, where
it broadens into sociohistoricocultural critique, apposite in its
impertinence). <br>
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The underground is suggestive for me of mycelial networks producing
decomposition (a tree means much less lying down)--and information.<br>
<p>Theatre, I think, retreated from autocritique with the postwar
crisis of representation--that is, having, as a mode of
representation, <i>par excellence</i>, to some, flagellated
itself into political impotence, it went a great distance, and
stopped: probably in the 1980s.<br>
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<p>Then there is this provocative notion of noncompliance:
bodies--the means of production; bodies--the means of
nonproduction.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Simon<br>
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