...Warren Montag In his commentary on what he calls Althusser’s dramaturgy, Étienne Balibar notes the importance of theater as a metaphor and in its literal, material existence as an organized space in which both visibility and invisibility are staged. This essay attempts to explore the importance...

... a politics of theater to a theatrical politics. Building on the movement Balibar traces on how the problematic of ideology is successively transformed through a series of décalages over a longitudinal view of Althusser’s oeuvre, this essay proposes another décalage in light of the posthumously published...

...Étienne Balibar An important part of the new interest for the work of Louis Althusser (1918–1990) has focused on his interpretation of “materialist theater,” as proposed in a famous essay from 1962. This is, in fact, hardly separable from discussing again the “pragmatic” reading of his theory...

...Adi Ophir In “Althusser’s Dramaturgy and the Critique of Ideology,” Étienne Balibar reconstructs Althusser’s quest for “a critical concept of ideology” and offers one of his own. Both moves are based on close attention to the relation between theater and politics. Power is always theatrical because...

... and the practice of noise since this moment. In the first part, the focus is on Michel Chion’s writings that deal with noise—both conceptually and linguistically—across a variety of media (including theater, film, and music). Chion’s work is exemplary of a movement away from noise as paradigm-shifting...

... of transgender representations in early modern China. Li Yu’s works demonstrate that the representation and performance of ambiguous or trans genders was linked to elite male consumption: that is, transgressive gender presentations were a prime form of entertainment, in fiction as in theater. However, his...

..., theater should become propaganda. It is, however, more likely that the figure of the dramaturge is hyperbolic, if not self-mocking. Works Cited Althusser Louis . “ Freud and Lacan .” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays . Trans. Brewster Ben . New York : Monthly Review Press...

.... Journal of Hellenic Studies Supplement 5, 1929 . Dickins Guy . “ The Masks .” Dawkins . 163 - 186 . Dinsmoor W. B. “ The Athenian Theater of the Fifth Century .” Studies Presented to D. M. Robinson . Vol. 1 . St. Louis : Washington UP , 1951 . 309 - 30 . Halperin David...

... representation (the fictional)” (167). Often mediated through traditional theater, recent cross-dressing performance on the Chinese stage and in mass media has had a significant impact on Chinese popular culture and gender politics...

... . 3 : 1 – 22 . Bargu Banu . “ Althusser’s Materialist Theater: Ideology and Its Aporias .” 26 . 3 : 81 – 106 . Butler Judith . “ Theatrical Machines .” 26 . 3 : 23 – 42 . Chun Wendy Hui Kyong . “ Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards .” 26 . 2 : 1 – 28...

.... Jephcott Edmund Eiland Howard others . Ed. Eiland Howard Jennings Michael W. Cambridge : Belknap P of Harvard UP , 2002 . 101 – 33 . Bergson Henri . Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic . New York : Macmillan , 1911 . Betty and Jane at the Theater...

.... Shinoda Mashiro. Hyôgensha and Art Theater Guild, 1969 . Available with English subtitles as Double Suicide . Sievers, Sharon L. Flowers in Salt: the Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1983 . Thompson, Kristin, and David Bordwell. “Space and Narrative...

...- rated by conventional histories and discourses of the family. It focuses upon the entangled relations between the world of eighteenth-century theater and London’s thriving clandestine marriage trade because these were cultural spaces...

... points here is, no doubt, that for Althusser, ideology is not necessarily located behind one’s back or, for that matter, below or beyond what we see, as certain recent polemics have suggested. 3 The model of the theater allows for ideology and its subjects to confront each other directly. In doing so...

... of the revelatory substance of “the political sphere of human life” (188), and she baptized theater “the political art par excellence” for only in it can “the actors and speakers who re-enact the story’s plot [. . .] convey the full meaning, not so much of the story itself but of the ‘heroes’ who reveal themselves...

... other than what he is, but precisely by remaining who he is: by becoming himself fully he is sanctified.4 Sarah Kofman refers to the transfiguration that takes place as the "pharmaceutical function," both of theater and of theory ("L'espace" 1145). It is clear enough, then, why Oedipus should...

..., the show presents stories of desire and loss, of illness and lucky escapes. Blending noirish iconographies and scenarios, Shaw turns the stage into an anatomy theater and the audience into her students. Narrating her medical history through shifting generic registers, she moves us in and out of personal...

.... The husband responded, as if to indicate that Costas misunderstood him: it wasn’t proper because she would be seen onscreen, that is, seen by anonymous and unknown others in the dark expanse of the theater. That she could be seen onscreen, in public, was enough to trigger local gossip that would impugn...

..., and sexual identity; on folk theater and popular culture; on consumer culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the contemporary United States; and on aesthetics and modernity. Her current project, Souvenirs of Rome , based on her fieldwork with Roman souvenir vendors, explores the role of peddling...

... James’s prose and his complex attachment to theater, I had read and then forgotten about the above passage from Leo Bersani’s famous essay “The Jamesian Lie.” Since then, my own complex attachment to theater had carried me from a large, diffuse English department to a tiny playwriting mfa program...