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Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time

Year 2023, Issue: 36, 111 - 116, 22.06.2023
https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001

Abstract

In his book Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time, the author James Layton explores Bergson’s philosophy of duration in relation to performance and by making connections with Bergson’s duration to concepts by Abraham Maslow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Victor Turner, suggests a new interpretation of Bergson’s duration in relation to what these other theorists have formulated, respectively, self-actualization, flow, and communitas. What Layton argues, with three performances as case studies approached from an autoethnographic perspective, is that performances lasting beyond smooth consumption in our socially accelerated world can facilitate the Bergsonian duration experience, that durational performance can act in opposition to social acceleration, thus emancipate us from the shackles of always “being now”, free us from networked time and by allowing us to decelerate, Layton suggests that durational performances might enable better attunement to our inner rhythms as human beings.

References

  • Layton, James. Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2022. google scholar

Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time

Year 2023, Issue: 36, 111 - 116, 22.06.2023
https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001

Abstract

In his book Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time, the author James Layton explores Bergson’s philosophy of duration in relation to performance and by making connections with Bergson’s duration to concepts by Abraham Maslow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Victor Turner, suggests a new interpretation of Bergson’s duration in relation to what these other theorists have formulated, respectively, self-actualization, flow, and communitas. What Layton argues, with three performances as case studies approached from an autoethnographic perspective, is that performances lasting beyond smooth consumption in our socially accelerated world can facilitate the Bergsonian duration experience, that durational performance can act in opposition to social acceleration, thus emancipate us from the shackles of always “being now”, free us from networked time and by allowing us to decelerate, Layton suggests that durational performances might enable better attunement to our inner rhythms as human beings.

References

  • Layton, James. Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2022. google scholar
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Contemporary Drama Studies
Journal Section Book Review
Authors

Ayşe Draz Orhon This is me

Publication Date June 22, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Issue: 36

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APA Draz Orhon, A. (2023). Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği Ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi(36), 111-116. https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001
AMA Draz Orhon A. Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. JTCD. June 2023;(36):111-116. doi:10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001
Chicago Draz Orhon, Ayşe. “Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time”. Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği Ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, no. 36 (June 2023): 111-16. https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001.
EndNote Draz Orhon A (June 1, 2023) Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi 36 111–116.
IEEE A. Draz Orhon, “Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time”, JTCD, no. 36, pp. 111–116, June 2023, doi: 10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001.
ISNAD Draz Orhon, Ayşe. “Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time”. Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi 36 (June 2023), 111-116. https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001.
JAMA Draz Orhon A. Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. JTCD. 2023;:111–116.
MLA Draz Orhon, Ayşe. “Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time”. Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği Ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, no. 36, 2023, pp. 111-6, doi:10.26650/jtcd.2023.00001.
Vancouver Draz Orhon A. Bergson and Durational Performance (Re)Ma(r)king Time. JTCD. 2023(36):111-6.