Wittgenstein and Performance

Mischa Twitchin is a senior lecturer in the theatre and performance department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

• Introduction, Mischa TwitchinChapter 1.Familiarity in Gesture: An Encounter Between Dance and Wittgenstein's Thought, Né BarrosChapter 2.Pataquerulous Wittgenstein and the Animaladies of Language, Charles Bernstein Chapter 3. The Possibility of Fact: Sketching an Origin for the Performative, Simon BowesVerbal Fog(poem), Miles ChampionChapter 4. The More One Looks…, Will Daddario and Alice Lagaay Chapter 5. The Stage of Thoughts: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Josef Nadj, Veronika DaridaChapter 6. Encountering Wittgenstein, Françoise DavoineChapter 7. I’ll Teach You Differences: Wittgenstein Against Philosophical Pseudo-Performance, Peter DillardChapter 8.Conversation between Signe Gjessing, Ray Monk, and Max RichterChapter 9. Always One Sentence on Every Page Allowed my Mind to Flower, KennethGoldsmith Chapter 10. The Fibres, the Fly Bottle, and the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein’s Figuration of Politics, Derek GottliebChapter 11. Ethics is Aesthetics, Anthony HowellChapter 12. Let the Use of the Words Teach You Their Meaning: A Dialogue between Sue MacLaine and Jonathan BurrowsChapter 13. Reading Jean Bazin with Wittgenstein: Playing Chess or Making Custard?, Bernard MüllerChapter 14. The Odd Couple: Duchamp and Wittgenstein, Marjorie PerloffIn Memoriam(poem), Tom RaworthChapter 15. On Performing Wittgenstein, Bo TarenskeenChapter 16. Wittgenstein’s Use of the Tableau Vivant: Proposition and Group Performance, The Aesthetics Group (Jeanette Doyle, Cathy O’Carroll, Mick O’Hara, and Connell Vaughan)Chapter 17. Philosophical Problems and Stochastic Parrots: Between Aphorism and Algorithm, Mischa TwitchinChapter 18. Wittgenstein Incorporated: A Conversation between Peter and Lukas VerburgtIndexAbout the Contributors

There are few people with the nerve to reacquaint Wittgenstein and performance, but Mischa Twitchin is one. Having recognised the curious elision of the Analytic tradition from almost all interdisciplinary pairings of thought and theatre, this critically incisive and often playful collection sets about recovering the potential for a practiced poetics of philosophical rigour.