Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater

by Jessica Rizzo

If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950192881
• ISBN13: 9781950192885
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"