Philip Auslander quotes
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“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”
-- Philip AuslanderSource : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge
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“In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.”
-- Philip AuslanderSource : Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.63, Routledge
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“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.”
-- Philip AuslanderSource : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge
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“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.”
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“The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.”
-- Philip AuslanderSource : Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.33, Routledge
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“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.”
-- Philip Auslander
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Source : "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.
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Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...”
Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.
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“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”
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“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”
Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.