Theatre and the Virtual

Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of theatrical potentiality.

Zornitsa Dimitrova is a theatre researcher focusing on the philosophy of technology, the ecological turn, vulnerability studies, and the aesthetics of the Anthropocene. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Münster. Research monographs include Literary Worlds and Deleuze: Expression as Mimesis and Event (2017) and the present book, Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture (2022). Pieces on theatre have appeared in Deleuze Studies, The New Theatre Quarterly, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Performance Philosophy, and Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies.

Acknowledgements Introduction. The Virtual as a Theatrical Force Chapter 1. Potentiality and the Virtual The Depletion of Potentiality: Motion and Action Motion and Growth in the Poetics and N--yä-stra Other Forms Actual and Virtual Potentiality as an Ontological Horizon Chapter 2. Genesis and the Virtual Strandbeests Interfusing Theatre as a Technical Object Gestural Potentiality The Transducer Chapter 3. Violence and Touch Land of Palms The Technicity of Touch Violent Conditions Touch and Event Repotentialising Matter Engendering Practice: On Environmentality Chapter 4. Organism and Gesture Organism and the Field of Potentiality Diaphanous Organismicity Organism and Machine Omnia Response: Against Communication Conclusion Glossary Index