“Out, and under, and out, and out.” Self-(Dis-)Organisation and the Stories of Libertatia

Recent socio-political developments in the experimental performing arts scenes from Europe have seen a strong commitment to the practices of self-organisation and their liberating impetus. Responding to the experimental nature of many such activities with a likewise experimental theoretical enquiry,...

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Main Author: Georg Doecker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Performance Philosophy 2019-02-01
Series:Performance Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/241
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Summary:Recent socio-political developments in the experimental performing arts scenes from Europe have seen a strong commitment to the practices of self-organisation and their liberating impetus. Responding to the experimental nature of many such activities with a likewise experimental theoretical enquiry, this paper invests in an interpretation of self-organising principles from anarchism, cybernetics, and vitalist materialism through the fictional narrative of the pirate utopia Libertatia. The argument thus developed is that the liberating potentials of self-organisation can be located precisely in its inherent tendency toward self-dis-organisation.
ISSN:2057-7176