#szerszynski

[natureandperformance]

Szerszynski, Bronislaw. 2005. Nature, technology, and the sacred. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

 Problematics of ‘the disenchantment of nature,’ as if nature is essentially meaningless until humans project meaning onto it

 Science as the new sacred

 Emergence of the idea of nature as socially understood; nature as a collection of signs from the creator; nature as containing its own ordering; nature as passive

 ‘The environment;’ nature as threatened by biopolitical activity (resource scarcity, pollution)

 Emergence of the environmental movement

 Nature as part of the everyday, in lifestyle and consumption

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[natureandperformance]

Giannachi, Gabriella, and Nigel Stewart. 2005. Performing nature: explorations in ecology and the arts. Oxford: Lang.

Szerszynski, Bronislaw. "Beating the Unbound: Political Theatre in the Laboratory Without Walls."

 Activism, protest, like polis.

 "Contemporary activism...is based on the affective, neo-tribal, 'mechanical' solidarity of those who share the same opinions and feelings about the world. Their dress codes and wider material culture mark not their position in social hierarchies organised around worldly power but their very dis affiliation from them" (185-6).

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