On Repetition
“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” (Andy Warhol)
This special issue of Maska raises the question of repetition as one of the central and most complex concepts appropriated in various ways by a large segment of philosophical and theoretical currents of the twentieth century.
Namely, repetition has proven to be a convenient conceptual tool for thinking about modern subjectivity, contemporary social and economic constellations, contemporary art and leverages of creativity, and for conceptualising a series of basic questions, such as the questions of the relationship between representation and the unrepresentable, between finitude and infinity, between urgency and change, between constraint and freedom, between sameness and similarity, between truth and illusion, or between the real and the alleged, the question of time, memory and history, the question of reproduction and the new.
At its most general, the concept of repetition in the 20th-century philosophy (frequently cited authors include Deleuze, Derrida, Lacan and Foucault as well as Husserl and Heidegger, and Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Leibniz in the history of philosophy) represents an alternative to a unified conception of being, the idea of origin, and the perception of the world as a whole, derived from the illusion of self-affection and from the assumption of originary mutual belonging of the subject and the object.
Journal Maska, no. 191-192 (summer-autumn 2018)
Editors: Amelia Kraigher, Bara Kolenc
ISSN 1318-0509
Contents
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: MATEJA BUČAR
Pia Brezavšček
CHOREOGRAPHIC OBJECTS
ON REPETITION
Bara Kolenc
SUSPENSION: REPEATING REPETITION! (INTRODUCTION)
Bara Kolenc
THEATRE AND REPETITION: AN INTERVIEW WITH MLADEN DOLAR
Bara Kolenc
ON REPETITION AND THEATRICALITY: A DIALOGUE WITH SAMUEL WEBER
Bojan Anđelković
PHILOSOPHY AND ITS DOUBLE: NIETZSCHE, DELEUZE AND THE THEATRE OF REPETITION
Mirt Komel
TOUCH IN THE TOWN OF GOGA: TOUCH AND REPETITION IN SLAVKO GRUM’S AN EVENT IN THE TOWN OF GOGA
Pia Brezavšček
UNTANGLING THE OXYMORON OF REPETITION OF THE UNREPEATABLE IN DANCE IMPROVISATION
Katja Čičigoj
REPETITIONS OF A TEXT – A TEXT ON REPETITION
CRITICISM WITHOUT ADJECTIVES
Igor Burić
LOOKING BOTH WAYS: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR RÓBERT LÉNÁRD
Igor Burić
SWITCH ON, SWITCH OFF, OR TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS IN DRAMATURGY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN NOVI SAD THEATRE
Stefan Hölscher
MATTER THAT MATTERS
Anja Rošker
PASSION FOR PERFORMATIVIT