Performance and (post)digital ontologies: A comment from an anthropological point of view

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Published: Jul 26, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.27619
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digital technologies postrepresentationalism ontological turn agency ethnographic research
Vasiliki Lalioti
ΕΚΠΑ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6201-9722
Abstract

Causey (2016) introduced the concept “postdigital performance” to describe the works of artists who, as he argues, think digitally, that is, they incorporate structural elements of the digital in their performances, in order to resist the systems of control inherent in the contemporary postdigital culture’s networks. Prompted by Causey’s analysis which, within the frame of performance studies, reproduces (dominant western) positivist views on the ontology of the digital (and the humane), in this paper I explore the ways in which the ontological turn in anthropology may shed light on questions concerning the ontology of the digital, without making universalizing claims.       

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Vasiliki Lalioti, ΕΚΠΑ
Μόνιμη Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Ανθρωπολογίας της Επιτέλεσης στο Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών
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