Heterogenesis and the Tragic Offstage
The offstage of a realistic (or mimetic) play is a space oddly indeterminate with respect to truth. This offstage world is key to understanding how the tragic stage has always been a space of differential heterogenesis. The offstage provided 5th century Athenians with an alternative to the binary lo...
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| description | The offstage of a realistic (or mimetic) play is a space oddly indeterminate with respect to truth. This offstage world is key to understanding how the tragic stage has always been a space of differential heterogenesis. The offstage provided 5th century Athenians with an alternative to the binary logic that had implicitly been affirmed through the introduction of metal coinage. An information theory perspective suggests that, in his tragedies, Aeschylus created an archaic, psycho-affective computational software to run on the newly reconfigured spatial hardware of the stage. The crucial feature was his placement of the skênê with its central door, its “anti-logic gate.” In the offstage, the coinagedriven “logic of sense” that delivers unity is being problemetized and then challenged by a “logic of sensation” in which pre-subjective affects claim their primacy over cognition and ratiocination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc6f1e295ae64ed1a924e9a6cc28939c2023-01-23T00:05:45ZengACTLa Deleuziana2421-30982020-01-0111251258Heterogenesis and the Tragic OffstageGuy ZimmermanThe offstage of a realistic (or mimetic) play is a space oddly indeterminate with respect to truth. This offstage world is key to understanding how the tragic stage has always been a space of differential heterogenesis. The offstage provided 5th century Athenians with an alternative to the binary logic that had implicitly been affirmed through the introduction of metal coinage. An information theory perspective suggests that, in his tragedies, Aeschylus created an archaic, psycho-affective computational software to run on the newly reconfigured spatial hardware of the stage. The crucial feature was his placement of the skênê with its central door, its “anti-logic gate.” In the offstage, the coinagedriven “logic of sense” that delivers unity is being problemetized and then challenged by a “logic of sensation” in which pre-subjective affects claim their primacy over cognition and ratiocination.http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Zimmerman.pdf |
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