Abstract
Performing alongside Alphonso Lingis and reading “Irrevocable Loss,” as a script for performance, this article articulates how readers can perform with concepts. Beyond the linear time of work or the evaluative time of daily performances that Lingis defines, performances with concepts often occur in the nebulous and chaotic space-time of what Bryan Reynolds calls “transversal territory.” In transversal territory, readers as performers abide with human and non-human others, and performance becomes an ethical multiplicity: it requires articulation, selection, and parametrization, as its various human and non-human components transform and jet across multiple planes and space-times. Responsibility, technique, and articulated identity diffuse into the care of abiding with concepts and they are allowed to perform as readers perform with them: transforming each other without capture.
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Notes
- 1.
Alphonso Lingis, Dangerous Emotions (Berkley: University of California Press, 2000), 119.
- 2.
See infra.
- 3.
Ibid.
- 4.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 165.
- 5.
Bryan Reynolds, Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida (New York: Palgrave, 2009), 285.
- 6.
Ibid., 287.
- 7.
Ibid.
- 8.
Ibid., 274.
- 9.
Here, I am referencing Bryan Reynolds theorization of “becomings” alongside “comings-to-be” and “goings.” Each term emphasizes different aspects of change and transformation. Becomings are intentional, comings-to-be are unintentional, and goings are forceful and non-volitional. More on these terms can be found most succinctly in the glossary of Transversal Subjects.
- 10.
Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy?, 186.
- 11.
Ibid., 197.
- 12.
Lingis, Dangerous Emotions, 13–14.
- 13.
Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy?, 17–20.
- 14.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R Lane. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 24, 55.
- 15.
Ibid., 64.
- 16.
Alphonso Lingis, The First Person Singular (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007), 28.
- 17.
Laura Cull, “Performance Philosophy,” Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts, and Theories, ed. Bryan Reynolds (New York: Palgrave, 2015), 98–99.
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Kolodezh, S. (2017). Performing with Care: Reading with Alphonso Lingis. In: Street, A., Alliot, J., Pauker, M. (eds) Inter Views in Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95192-5_24
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