Performing Science and the Virtual

, by Case; Sue-Ellen

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ISBN: 9780415414395 | 0415414393
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Copyright: 12/13/2006

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From Faust and Edison, to John Cage and Lara Croft, this inspiring book reviews classical plays to contemporary issues and examines how science has been performed throughout history.

List of illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: Theater's rebirth	p. 7
All the world's a theater: war and science	p. 10
Alchemy	p. 15
From mercurial change to monetary stasis	p. 18
Coding and decoding: Isaac Newton, alchemist	p. 20
Gender and sex in alchemy	p. 26
Alchemy's antagonist: Ben Jonson	p. 27
The gender divide: The Roaring Girl	p. 30
Faust: the new paradigm of alchemy	p. 32
The fall from Goethean science	p. 35
Proliferation of virtual spaces	p. 39
Transcendent gender and money	p. 41
Virtualizing the feminine gender	p. 45
The apotheosis of gender	p. 46
Eurythmy: erforming Goethean science	p. 49
Entr'acte: The price of admission	p. 51
Grassroots performances of science	p. 58
Accessing the virtual plane	p. 60
The advent of the avatar	p. 62
A sometimes man: fleshing out the gendered avatar	p. 64
Embodied geography: Tibet	p. 66
Mme. Blavatsky's phenomenal physics vs. the theater of Darwin	p. 70
The Gothic medium of matter	p. 75
Gothic ghosts haunt Marx	p. 77
The medium of invention: Edison and G.B. Shaw	p. 80
Tortured alchemy meets Darwinism: Strindberg	p. 82
A century of science	p. 86
The early years	p. 89
Expressionist schematics	p. 90
Between typewriter and electric chair: Machinal	p. 92
Vampiric typewriters	p. 95
Revue-ing sewing machines: Pins and Needles	p. 96
The Adding Machine	p. 98
Animating the machines: the robot	p. 99
Factories of death: Gas	p. 101
Expressionist futures	p. 103
Machine-love: the Futurist embrace	p. 104
Futurist futures	p. 107
Engineering Soviet science: Aelita Queen of Mars	p. 108
Mid-century modern	p. 114
Cold War alchemy	p. 117
Grassroots sightings of science: UFOs	p. 119
Alien abductions	p. 122
The mechanics of memory: Samuel Beckett and tape	p. 123
Songs of infidelity: Pauline Oliveros and John Cage	p. 128
The theremin and the Cage	p. 131
Virtual closet	p. 137
Out of the sonic closet	p. 138
Under-modern: trash	p. 142
Queer and cyber trash	p. 145
Queering trash	p. 147
Trash as dramatic universe: Jack Smith	p. 148
Cyberpunk trash	p. 149
Biospheres and bioreserves	p. 151
Neo-nature	p. 152
Virtual Tibet	p. 152
Harmonic Himalaya effect	p. 155
Critical Art Ensemble vs. Frankenature	p. 157
Doing Dolly: cloning and Caryl Churchill	p. 159
The avatar	p. 163
Twentieth-century Fausts	p. 166
Rocket science and satanism	p. 166
Church of Science	p. 167
Heaven's Gate	p. 168
Faust is Dead	p. 170
Staging scientists	p. 171
Fleshy physics: Galileo	p. 172
Darwin	p. 177
Heisenberg	p. 181
Einstein on the Beach	p. 182
Cyber-Darwin	p. 185
Avatars of synth-race	p. 185
Sun Ra: Pharoah from Outer Space	p. 188
Channeling New Age avatars	p. 193
Composing the cyber-avatar	p. 196
The avatar as credit	p. 199
Logo-centric avatars	p. 201
The digital diva: Lara Croft	p. 203
Waitingforgodot.com	p. 206
Stelarc	p. 208
The other avatar: neo-minstrels meet Cyber-Vato	p. 209
Transgender avatars are Virtually Yours	p. 215
Transgender express: the Brandon website	p. 218
Notes	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 228
Index	p. 236
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Performing Science and the Virtual

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