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Research paper thumbnail of TkH: Social Choreography 'A Dancing Body Offers Legitimacy to the State'

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Research paper thumbnail of Dance to No Ideals - Thinking with Sequel for the Future / a Dance in 2043 / a Dance in 2044

In common language, irony and cynicism might be perceived as similar registers. Yet, according to... more In common language, irony and cynicism might be perceived as similar registers. Yet, according to Franco Bifo Berardi, the origin of this equivalence is to be found in late modernity, when the two concepts were equated although they belong to two completely different ethical positions i . This misunderstanding results from a distorted effect of the deconstruction of belief, initiated in the 4 th Century BC by the philosophical movement of Skepticism, which also constitutes the common premise of both the ironical and the cynical position. Bifo sums up Skepticism as "the suspension of judgment at the level of knowledge and the impossibility at the level of morality" ii . This is useful to describe irony and cynicism as rhetorical tools based on suspending an assumed fixed relationship between reality and language. Still, according to Bifo, cynicism is "a form of enunciation within a regime of disbelief" aimed at "attaining or maintaining power or at least something in complicity to power" iii while irony could emerge as a powerful tool of critique against power. Relying on Sloterdijk's reflection, Bifo maintains that this is true especially today, where a modern form of cynicism, which has nothing to do with the refusal to bend to power that characterized Diogenes' school, is becoming the prevailing mind-set of the average man.

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Choreography: TkH no. 21 (En/Srb)

TkH Journal for performing arts theory no. 21 , 2013

The publication edited by Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic deals with the "social choreography" bo... more The publication edited by Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic deals with the "social choreography" both as a theoretical notion and artistic tool. As a theoretical notion proposed by the literary scholar Andrew Hewitt, it refers to embodiment as the mechanism of ideology, replacing discursive interpellation and claiming that ideology operates as the performance of an embodied ritual, without any belief involved. In parallel, a number of choreographers and artists use the term “social choreography” to describe their practices or political concerns. Moreover, in the past few years we have witnessed how that term has come to stand for a dance equivalent of community, socially engaged, and participatory art.

Research paper thumbnail of TkH: Social Choreography 'A Dancing Body Offers Legitimacy to the State'

Research paper thumbnail of Dance to No Ideals - Thinking with Sequel for the Future / a Dance in 2043 / a Dance in 2044

In common language, irony and cynicism might be perceived as similar registers. Yet, according to... more In common language, irony and cynicism might be perceived as similar registers. Yet, according to Franco Bifo Berardi, the origin of this equivalence is to be found in late modernity, when the two concepts were equated although they belong to two completely different ethical positions i . This misunderstanding results from a distorted effect of the deconstruction of belief, initiated in the 4 th Century BC by the philosophical movement of Skepticism, which also constitutes the common premise of both the ironical and the cynical position. Bifo sums up Skepticism as "the suspension of judgment at the level of knowledge and the impossibility at the level of morality" ii . This is useful to describe irony and cynicism as rhetorical tools based on suspending an assumed fixed relationship between reality and language. Still, according to Bifo, cynicism is "a form of enunciation within a regime of disbelief" aimed at "attaining or maintaining power or at least something in complicity to power" iii while irony could emerge as a powerful tool of critique against power. Relying on Sloterdijk's reflection, Bifo maintains that this is true especially today, where a modern form of cynicism, which has nothing to do with the refusal to bend to power that characterized Diogenes' school, is becoming the prevailing mind-set of the average man.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Choreography: TkH no. 21 (En/Srb)

TkH Journal for performing arts theory no. 21 , 2013

The publication edited by Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic deals with the "social choreography" bo... more The publication edited by Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic deals with the "social choreography" both as a theoretical notion and artistic tool. As a theoretical notion proposed by the literary scholar Andrew Hewitt, it refers to embodiment as the mechanism of ideology, replacing discursive interpellation and claiming that ideology operates as the performance of an embodied ritual, without any belief involved. In parallel, a number of choreographers and artists use the term “social choreography” to describe their practices or political concerns. Moreover, in the past few years we have witnessed how that term has come to stand for a dance equivalent of community, socially engaged, and participatory art.

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