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C O U R S E
Theater and Globalization
Christopher Balme, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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C O U R S E L E C T U R E Deterritorialization and Modernization Notes taken on October 24, 2016 by Edward Tanguay |
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the relation between theater, globalization, and mobility
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mobility is understood in two ways
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1. migration
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people relocated to different parts of the globe in the 19th and 20th centuries
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their theatrical cultures followed them
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2. theatrical mobility
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theatrical actors and performances which moved around the world
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deterritorialization
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coined by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
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1972 book Anti-Oedipus
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referred to a type of fluid subjectivity
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most globalization theories use the term in a cultural sense
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the experience of being disconnected from traditional cultural matrices by the experience of migration
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Arjun Appadurai: deteritorialization is displacement
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one of the central forces of the modern world
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relocating and mixing different classes of people
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creating exaggerated attachment to politics and religions of home, often resulting in fundamentalism
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creating new artistic and media markets in the diaspora
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a way of thinking about cultural contact in spatialized terms
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culture is tied to territory
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if territory is left or lost, then so is the culture
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cultures are passed down by human beings who carry their cultures with them
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when they relocate, so do their cultures and cultural practices
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these altered forms are sometimes spoken of in negative terms
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adulterated
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second hand
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also have productive forces
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therefore deterritorialization is not entirely a negative force
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people use media and their imagination to combat the effects of deterritorialization
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leads to reterritorialization
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new ties are established with the new cultural space
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via television, Internet, theater
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the theatricality of mobility
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the means of transportation and communication that made this expansion possible
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shipping lines, railways, telegraphic communication
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without with theater on the move would have been impossible
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modernization
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one of the most controversial terms in our vocabulary
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it often stands for exploitation as well as benefit
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it is seldom used in terms of theater, but it should be
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the introduction of mainly western technologies and institutions to societies which had been traditional in outlook
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while it is clear that the implementation of telegraphic communication, railways, and printing presses in this sense, we should also include western style theater
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Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Empire"
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"Certain institutions typified the zone of development of European domination, notably the essential secular university, which did not exist outside this zone and, for different purposes, the Opera house. Both these institutions reflects the penetration of the dominant Western civilization"
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universities and opera houses came to be seen as symbols of modernization
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multiple modernities
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Shmuel Eisenstadt
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modernization led to a wide range of responses to the way modernity and modern institutional patterns and dynamics
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institutions must be seen in terms of their cultural variability and not as monolithic entities
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modernity is a process of adaptation and cultural variability
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while the technologies of modernization were relatively similar, the responses were manifold