The Theatre of the Virtual: How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty

Alloa, Emmanuel

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“…For this purpose, we focus on Merleau-Ponty's early work, particularly on the Phenomenology of perception first published in 1945. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Merleau-Ponty's approach to the phenomenon of virtuality due to its potential to rethink corporeality in the experience of the virtual (Alloa 2014;Barbaras 1999;du Toit 2020;Ihde 2009;Parmentier 2018;Steeves 2001;Vitali-Rosati 2010. We draw on Merleau-Ponty's critical reformulation of intentionality as an expression of virtual corporeal movement in order to outline the concept of the virtual body (corps virtuel).…”

Section: Virtualizing Embodied Experiencementioning

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“…As long as technology is thought of primarily from an anthropocentric perspective in terms of a "projective teleology" (Alloa 2014, p. 155), it is not possible to do justice to the otherness and strangeness of non-human virtual technologies (Parisi 2013). 14 Nevertheless, some authors (Alloa 2014;du Toit 2020;Hoel and Carusi 2017;Vitali-Rosati 2010 suggest that Merleau-Ponty's later writings allow us to reconsider the emergence of the virtual in a non-anthropocentric way by introducing the concept of flesh (chair) (Merleau-Ponty 1968). In any case, the heuristic concept of the virtual body has allowed us to examine some of the ways in which the body itself transgresses its physical presence without overcoming it, by opening up a horizon of virtual corporeal movement and meaning.…”

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The Presence of the Body in Digital Education: A Phenomenological Approach to Embodied Experience

Willatt

Flores

2021

Stud Philos Educ

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In a context of pervasive digitalization of the social world, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the field of education has undergone major changes with the development of digital practices and settings. However, the physical presence of the subjects and the body remain something primordial and irreplaceable in traditional educational processes. Thus, it is often assumed that virtuality is opposed to the corporeal reality of the subjects involved in teaching, learning and studying. In this paper we aim to critically challenge this assumption by addressing the phenomenon of virtuality in a more original sense: as a fundamental dimension of corporeality itself. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological insights, we argue that the experience of the virtual is inherently embodied and fully real. We understand corporeality and virtuality as entangled and multidimensional phenomena. At the same time, this leads us to rethink the digital as only one possible medium in which virtuality can appear as inherent to embodied experience. We develop our phenomenological approach in three instances. First, we question and bracket two common assumptions about corporeality. From our critical perspective, assumptions about a disembodied digitality and a devirtualized corporeality represent extremes within which educational discourses currently move. Second, we address the inherent virtuality of embodied experience. We outline the heuristic concept of the virtual body (Merleau-Ponty) to describe corporeality and virtuality as entangled and multidimensional phenomena that encompass extension, intercorporeality and intermediality. Finally, we make some remarks on the relationships of corporeality and virtuality considering the challenges of digital education.

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Section: Virtualizing Embodied Experiencementioning

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Section: Final Remarksmentioning

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The Presence of the Body in Digital Education: A Phenomenological Approach to Embodied Experience

Willatt

Flores

2021

Stud Philos Educ

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“…If, "existence is merely the complement of essence" (Baumgarten cited by Alloa, 2014) then the body manifestations of The Others become a representation of the essence of humanity which has dematerialized during the global isolation. During the quarantine, to be in the world meant being in the virtual world mostly.…”

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At Home on Zoom, Theatre Shows During the Quarantine Time

Sterian¹

2021

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This article aims to analyse the totality of connections between space, performers and audiences created during artistic performances taking place on the Zoom platform during the lockdown. After Facebook & YouTube live events, these types of show, most often theatre performances but also contemporary dances, poetry shows, concerts, or performance art, became one of the most popular artistic manifestations of March-May 2020. In conjunction with cultural institutions being closed and artists and spectators confined to their homes, the two-month lockdown led to the emergence of a quarantine culture marked by online artistic manifestations. What I call quarantine culture is a kind of homemade culture that involves art performances at home, a theme I have been studying for the past eight years. Here I take up the example of the HomeFest events, which, due to the pandemic, took place on the Zoom platform in 2020. Focusing on the online HomeFest, I examine the differences, as well as commonalities, between the work for a show created for the traditional stage or the black box and the work for the in-house productions broadcast online, where artists have adapted themselves to the domestic, as well as to the virtual space. I explore the interconnections between the elements of the zoom theatre performance (also read as e-homemade culture) while also questioning the relationship between the final work and the cultural market that led to the emergence of e-homemade culture.

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Steuernagel¹

2021

Church Music Through the Lens of Performance

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The Theatre of the Virtual: How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty

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The Presence of the Body in Digital Education: A Phenomenological Approach to Embodied Experience

The Presence of the Body in Digital Education: A Phenomenological Approach to Embodied Experience

At Home on Zoom, Theatre Shows During the Quarantine Time

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