Montažstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics

Leo Rafolt teaches performance studies, cultural theory, and theoretical dramaturgy as a full professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments1. Preamble: Performance as Revolt, and the Scums of History2. Perpetual Dynamism of Labored Bodies: From the Intrusion into the Institution3. Meyerhold Bound, and the Barbaric Discipline of the Machine4. Topography of Excess, or the Profanation of Performative Risk5. Messianic Time, and Decay of the Post-Yugoslav Idea6. Queer Immanence, and Technocentric Utopia of the Master and the Slave7. On Emancipation Politics: Public Sphere between Irruption and Institution8. Emancipate, Participate, or Else: Not Every Performance is a Democratic Regime9. On Obstinacy, Minoritarianism, and the Performance Gaze10. Performance of/or Debt: The Economy’s Frank Face11. Terror of Acceptance: Mass-Murders and Political DystopiaPerformance ReferencesReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Montažstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics confronts us with the necessity of writing and performing theory in a time of permanent global crisis, pandemics, war conflicts, terrorism, economic fractures, and public broken narratives. The starting points are in performance studies and applications to real life forms. Leo Rafolt constantly provokes his reader and interprets, transgresses, reveals potential traps, gives answers, and turns answers into challenges of performativity.