Notes
1For instance, the work of Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski, Jan Fabre and the early work of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.
2Judith Butler has been critical of Kristeva's primordialization of the maternal body in her books Gender Trouble (1990) and Bodies that Matter (1993), exactly because it is considered as primordial and thus pre-discursive and independent of historical and cultural inscriptions.
3Michael Richardson comments that ‘Bataille did not renounce the role of a philosopher. If he rejected the discourse of philosophy, he did so because he rejected all discourse’ (1998: 2).
4Karoline Gritzner's recent article on formlessness and participation ‘at the limit’ within performing arts (2011) is noteworthy in this respect. It brings to the foreground a social perspective of participatory performance through the discussion of this notion.