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Papers by Alice Lagaay
Edition Moderne Postmoderne, 2008
Das 20. Jahrhundert war durch eine radikale Rückbesinnung auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von S... more Das 20. Jahrhundert war durch eine radikale Rückbesinnung auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Sprache gekennzeichnet. Der neuzeitliche Traum einer restlosen Benennung des Weltganzen wird fraglich, wenn ihr Medium - die propositionale Aussagelogik - unter Verdacht gerät. Der Band wirft die brisante Frage auf, ob der für das Jahrhundert prägende linguistic turn nicht so sehr in einer Hinwendung, als vielmehr in einer »Abwendung« vom Sagen besteht, die sich in der Entsagungsgeste von Melvilles Bartleby emblematisch verkörpert. Einzelanalysen zu literarischen Strategien bei Mallarmé, Wittgenstein, Celan, Foucault, Adorno, Derrida, Lévinas u.a.m. führen vor, wie Unterlassen nicht nur ein kritisches, sondern auch stets ein schöpferisches Moment in sich birgt. Mit Beiträgen von Giorgio Agamben, Jean Clam, Rüdiger Zill u.v.a.m.
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
What Role could Presence Play in the Practices of Academia? On the performativity of theory in th... more What Role could Presence Play in the Practices of Academia? On the performativity of theory in the context of Performance Philosophy-The dialogue discusses the role presence could be permitted to play in academic situations of co-presence with others (in comparison to the importance of presence in artistic contexts). It ponders the extent to which conventional academic forms, quite apart from seeking to guarantee objectivity in theory, actually predetermine , or in fact limit, the communicability of theoretical content. The conversation points to the need for a new dramaturgical attentiveness to the performativity of theory and calls for an innovative approach to the formats in which the questions and results concerning various fields in the humanities could be presented and negotiated more successfully.
Destruction in the Performative, 2000
Zur Kooperationspraxis zwischen Theater und Schule im Berliner Modellprojekt »JUMP & RUN«, 2000
Performance Research, 2016
Ethische und aisthetische Dimensionen des Performativen, 2015
Kulturelles Handeln zwischen Askese und Restriktion, 2010
Strategien der Sprachabwendung im 20. Jahrhundert, 2008
Paragrana, 2008
Diskurse um die Moderne und moderne Medien konzentrieren sich oft auf die visuellen Dimensionen m... more Diskurse um die Moderne und moderne Medien konzentrieren sich oft auf die visuellen Dimensionen moderner Kulturdie Allgegenwärtigkeit von Bildern und Texten, die Bedeutung des Ikonischen etc. Allerdings darf über diesen Fokus auf das Visuelle die ...
Encounters in Performance Philosophy, 2014
Seeking to affirm the non-thetic, the exploratory, open and dynamic nature of Performance Philoso... more Seeking to affirm the non-thetic, the exploratory, open and dynamic nature of Performance Philosophy, Alice Lagaay and Alice Koubová have chosen the form of a dialogue to address their respectively different yet resonating perspectives, opening a space in which to experience the ‘impossible’ in philosophy. The internally transcending aspect of the impossible is shown to be crucial for outplaying rigid paradigms. Yet it also presents a unique challenge to thinking. Their conversation evokes various paradoxical strategies by which to touch the ungraspable: from longing for the neutral (Barthes), to the magnification of reality through secrecy (Simmel), from roaming wondering around the figure of the closed fist (Derrida), to the emphasis of expressive difference (Blumenberg), or the revelation that emerges via concealment (Heidegger). Such strategies are gradually revealed to be performative in themselves and through them, Performance Philosophy suggests itself as a way of caring for the impossible without rendering it mysterious. Lagaay and Koubová document this statement by reference to their own philosophy and performance practices. The performative effect of the dialogue brings the impossible to glimmer between non-unified strands of thought, ranging from the idea of ludic peace and playful indifference on the one hand, to the necessary experience of thinking and living with paradoxes, on the other.
Krämer, Sybille (Hg.): Performativität und Medialität. …, 2004
… Eine philosophische Einführung. Frankfurt aM: Campus …, 2004
Performance Philosophy
The concept of "Creative Indifference" put forward by Salomo Friedlaender in his 1918 m... more The concept of "Creative Indifference" put forward by Salomo Friedlaender in his 1918 magnum opus, Schöpferische Indifferenz, provides much food for thought from a Performance Philosophy perspective. Friedlaender's work, which has been largely overlooked by academic philosophers until now, was in fact hugely influential in expressionist Dada circles at the time of its publication. It also contributed to shaping Gestalt Therapy theories and practice, thereby relating to a number of bodywork movements that continue to inform performance practice and Performance Philosophy alike. In this short text, Alice Lagaay begins to explore the manner in which Friedlaender/Mynona can be seen as a Performance Philosopher “avant la lettre”, and how the notion of "Creative Indifference” might be fruitful in the ongoing "Mind-the-Gap”- debate relating to the relation between “Performance" and "Philosophy".
Edition Moderne Postmoderne, 2008
Das 20. Jahrhundert war durch eine radikale Rückbesinnung auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von S... more Das 20. Jahrhundert war durch eine radikale Rückbesinnung auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Sprache gekennzeichnet. Der neuzeitliche Traum einer restlosen Benennung des Weltganzen wird fraglich, wenn ihr Medium - die propositionale Aussagelogik - unter Verdacht gerät. Der Band wirft die brisante Frage auf, ob der für das Jahrhundert prägende linguistic turn nicht so sehr in einer Hinwendung, als vielmehr in einer »Abwendung« vom Sagen besteht, die sich in der Entsagungsgeste von Melvilles Bartleby emblematisch verkörpert. Einzelanalysen zu literarischen Strategien bei Mallarmé, Wittgenstein, Celan, Foucault, Adorno, Derrida, Lévinas u.a.m. führen vor, wie Unterlassen nicht nur ein kritisches, sondern auch stets ein schöpferisches Moment in sich birgt. Mit Beiträgen von Giorgio Agamben, Jean Clam, Rüdiger Zill u.v.a.m.
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
What Role could Presence Play in the Practices of Academia? On the performativity of theory in th... more What Role could Presence Play in the Practices of Academia? On the performativity of theory in the context of Performance Philosophy-The dialogue discusses the role presence could be permitted to play in academic situations of co-presence with others (in comparison to the importance of presence in artistic contexts). It ponders the extent to which conventional academic forms, quite apart from seeking to guarantee objectivity in theory, actually predetermine , or in fact limit, the communicability of theoretical content. The conversation points to the need for a new dramaturgical attentiveness to the performativity of theory and calls for an innovative approach to the formats in which the questions and results concerning various fields in the humanities could be presented and negotiated more successfully.
Destruction in the Performative, 2000
Zur Kooperationspraxis zwischen Theater und Schule im Berliner Modellprojekt »JUMP & RUN«, 2000
Performance Research, 2016
Ethische und aisthetische Dimensionen des Performativen, 2015
Kulturelles Handeln zwischen Askese und Restriktion, 2010
Strategien der Sprachabwendung im 20. Jahrhundert, 2008
Paragrana, 2008
Diskurse um die Moderne und moderne Medien konzentrieren sich oft auf die visuellen Dimensionen m... more Diskurse um die Moderne und moderne Medien konzentrieren sich oft auf die visuellen Dimensionen moderner Kulturdie Allgegenwärtigkeit von Bildern und Texten, die Bedeutung des Ikonischen etc. Allerdings darf über diesen Fokus auf das Visuelle die ...
Encounters in Performance Philosophy, 2014
Seeking to affirm the non-thetic, the exploratory, open and dynamic nature of Performance Philoso... more Seeking to affirm the non-thetic, the exploratory, open and dynamic nature of Performance Philosophy, Alice Lagaay and Alice Koubová have chosen the form of a dialogue to address their respectively different yet resonating perspectives, opening a space in which to experience the ‘impossible’ in philosophy. The internally transcending aspect of the impossible is shown to be crucial for outplaying rigid paradigms. Yet it also presents a unique challenge to thinking. Their conversation evokes various paradoxical strategies by which to touch the ungraspable: from longing for the neutral (Barthes), to the magnification of reality through secrecy (Simmel), from roaming wondering around the figure of the closed fist (Derrida), to the emphasis of expressive difference (Blumenberg), or the revelation that emerges via concealment (Heidegger). Such strategies are gradually revealed to be performative in themselves and through them, Performance Philosophy suggests itself as a way of caring for the impossible without rendering it mysterious. Lagaay and Koubová document this statement by reference to their own philosophy and performance practices. The performative effect of the dialogue brings the impossible to glimmer between non-unified strands of thought, ranging from the idea of ludic peace and playful indifference on the one hand, to the necessary experience of thinking and living with paradoxes, on the other.
Krämer, Sybille (Hg.): Performativität und Medialität. …, 2004
… Eine philosophische Einführung. Frankfurt aM: Campus …, 2004
Performance Philosophy
The concept of "Creative Indifference" put forward by Salomo Friedlaender in his 1918 m... more The concept of "Creative Indifference" put forward by Salomo Friedlaender in his 1918 magnum opus, Schöpferische Indifferenz, provides much food for thought from a Performance Philosophy perspective. Friedlaender's work, which has been largely overlooked by academic philosophers until now, was in fact hugely influential in expressionist Dada circles at the time of its publication. It also contributed to shaping Gestalt Therapy theories and practice, thereby relating to a number of bodywork movements that continue to inform performance practice and Performance Philosophy alike. In this short text, Alice Lagaay begins to explore the manner in which Friedlaender/Mynona can be seen as a Performance Philosopher “avant la lettre”, and how the notion of "Creative Indifference” might be fruitful in the ongoing "Mind-the-Gap”- debate relating to the relation between “Performance" and "Philosophy".