{"product_id":"postdigital-performances-of-care-9781350272101","title":"Postdigital Performances of Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCovid-19 has been described as a digital pandemic'. But who might the characterisation of the pandemic as digital' leave behind? This timely book reconsiders the pandemic as postdigital', examining \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etensions between a growing postdigital attitude of disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on adapted modes of online practice mid-lockdown in both performance-making and healthcare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerged amidst the pandemic restrictions was a theatre that was unable to show its face, instead adapting into a variety of covid-safe' remote forms of engagement, from Zoom plays' to self-generating experiences sent by post. This book explores the ways that both performances and healthcare practices found proxies for direct touch and face-to-face encounters, deconstructing the way that care and resilience were spectacularized by political actors online.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiam Jarvis and Karen Savage explore aspects of care in relation to technology, spectacle and f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs theatre and performance struggle to emerge in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, \u003ci\u003ePostdigital Performances of Care\u003c\/i\u003e provides a distinct lens through which to review our collective experiences and to reimagine possibilities for the future. Critical, insightful and compassionate throughout, the book reflects on the many meanings of care and challenges us to reconsider the \"new normal\". The authors present a compelling provocation for the field and how we might rethink performance itself in the current context. * Sarah Bay-Cheng, York University, Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eOpening Provocation: Soft Spaces; Hard Edges\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy Proto-type Theater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction: A ‘Postdigital Pandemic’?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Spectacles of Resilience: Postdigital\u003c\/b\u003e Online Theatre \u0026amp; Mid-pandemic Resilience A Postdigital Attitude: Blind Spots in Digital Culture Vacant Theatres as Nightingale Courtrooms Theatre as Social Services: Slung Low \u0026amp; Holbeck Food Bank \u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Theatre’s ‘Loss of Face’: The Levinasian Problem of Face-to-Face Encounters Mid-pandemic\u003c\/b\u003e Ambivalent Otherness: Face Ethics Mid-lockdown Patching into the Past: Coney’s \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e Lockdown as a Hotel Room Without a Door: Thaddeus Phillips’ \u003ci\u003eZoo Motel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The Spectacularization of Care Online\u003c\/b\u003e Performing Handshakes: From Defiant Gestural Retail Politics to ‘Bioweapon’ Performing Applause: From Doorstep Clapping to Anti-Hero Worship Resilience Optics: Surveillance Technologies as Care Symbols in ‘Drone Captain Tom’ \u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Digital Care \u0026amp; Pandemic\u003c\/b\u003e Care Ethics in Post-internet Cultures: ‘Caring about’ \u0026amp; ‘Caring for’ ‘Caring About’ Expanded: Webs of Interdependencies What Counts as ‘Digital Care’? Care as ‘Virtue Signaling’ on Social Media? Detached Touch: ‘Posting About’ as ‘Caring About’? Care and Memory in Miguel Angel Muñoz and Luisa Cantero's \u003ci\u003e100 Days with Tata\u003c\/i\u003e Regressing in Care: Russell Howard’s \u003ci\u003eHome Time\u003c\/i\u003e Theatre as Care Package: Nightcap’s \u003ci\u003eHandle With Care\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Digital Twins, Avatars \u0026amp; the Metaverse\u003c\/b\u003e AI-generated Avatars on Lensa Avatar Band Members in Aespa The Metaverse \u003cb\u003eConclusion: Meta-Resilience \u0026amp; the ‘New Normal’\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eEndnotes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eReferences\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019648958807,"sku":"9781350272101","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350272101.jpg?v=1750780902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postdigital-performances-of-care-9781350272101","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}