Difference and repetition in both sitting duet
Topoi 24 (1):15-28 (2005)
| Abstract | In this paper I identify and explore resonances between a contemporary dance piece – Jonathan Burrowss and Matteo Fargions Both Sitting Duet (2003) – and some theories from Gilles Deleuzes Difference and Repetition (1994). The duet consists of rhythmic, repetitive patterns of mainly hand movements performed by two men, for the most part, sitting on chairs. My argument, with Deleuze, is that the repetitions in the dance are productive rather than reductive. They are never repetitions of the same. The ways in which the hand patterns are played with constitute the multiple differences and repetitions we witness. I discuss these in relation to Deleuzes theories of repetition, specifically the ways in which repetition differs from resemblance avoiding the limitations of notions of origin and representation. I argue that, because of these differences which are bound up in the affective qualities of the duet that characterise the distinctive relationship between the two performers, the work, like Deleuzes theories, is transgressive with potential for change. I demonstrate this through its resonances with Deleuzes notions of simulacra and importantly his discussion of the Other. In the process, I aim to show how dance and philosophy can open up something of each other and, in this instance, suggest ways of thinking encounters otherwise. My aim is to foreground the transgressive potential of the extended repetition of the dance for making differences that matter between self and other. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,664 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesJohn Protevi (2005). Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition. Teaching Philosophy 28 (3):296-298.
Simon B. Duffy (2004). Schizo-Math: The Logic of Different/Ciation and the Philosophy of Difference. Angelaki 9 (3):199 – 215.
Jeffrey L. Powell (2010). The Abyss of Repetition. Epoché 14 (2):363-382.
John Protevi (2010). An Approach to Difference and Repetition. Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 5 (11):35-43.
Claire Colebrook (2005). How Can We Tell the Dancer From the Dance?: The Subject of Dance and the Subject of Philosophy. Topoi 24 (1):5-14.
Eugene Brently Young (2008). The Determination of Sense Via Deleuze and Blanchot: Paradoxes of the Habitual, the Immemorial, and the Eternal Return. Deleuze Studies 2 (2):155-177.
Lorna Clymer (ed.) (2006). Ritual, Routine and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern British and European Cultures. Published by the University of Toronto Press in Association with the Ucla Center for Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Gordon C. F. Bearn (2000). Differentiating Derrida and Deleuze. Continental Philosophy Review 33 (4):441-465.
Gilles Deleuze (1994). Difference and Repetition. Athlone Press.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads11 ( #99,458 of 549,010 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,261 of 549,010 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
