Virtual dramaturgy: Finding liberty in the virtual machine

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Notes

¹ Belgian philosopher Chantal Mouffe's notion of pluralistic democracy is based on agonism, a distinction between ‘enemy’ and ‘adversary’. It requires the opponent within the context of the political community to be considered not as an enemy to be destroyed, but as an adversary whose existence is legitimate and must be tolerated (1988). See also the forthcoming publication by Christel Stalpaert and Goran Petrovic on “Performing the Emigratory Experience” in TDPT.

² In his observation on dephtlessness and the waning of affect, Jameson stresses the fact that the cultural products of the postmodern era are not utterly devoid of feelings, emotions and anxieties. Rather, “such feelings – which it may be better and more accurate to call ‘intensities’ – are now free-floating and impersonal” (Jameson 2004: 200). Such feelings have been scattered, as the subject itself has been. For the double poetics in the popular image, see also Stalpaert 2012.