Theatre number Event: three Studies on the relationship between Sovereignty, power truth
Description
Theatre, Number, Event: Three Studies on the Relationship between Sovereignty, Power and Truth is a book at the crossroads of Continental Philosophy, European History and Cultural Studies. It offers a new set of formalizations of the relation(s) between sovereignty, power and truth. To do this it invents three conceptual fictions- theatre, number and event. “Theatre” stands for the physical assembly wherein sovereign exercise of power and the performative transformation of a multitude into a congregational subject of sovereignty are articulated together. “Number” is an index of multiplicity which differentiates countable sets of people from swarms that populate history while escaping the measure of count-as-one. “Event” raises the stakes of these formalizations by asking the following question: is it possible to think beyond the axiomatic, immemorial truth of sovereignty, to think of new and contingent truths, of new immemorials…?
Features
- : Theatre number Event: three Studies on the relationship between Sovereignty, power truth
- : Soumyabrata Choudhury
- : 9789382396024
- : 2013
- : xi+299pp
- : English
