Performative Imperceptibility - Deleuze, Dramaturgy, and Performance Philosophy

该项目旨在探讨吉尔·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）在主体性和表演生产的双重背景下变得不可察觉的概念的伦理和美学含义。它打算通过理论和实践相结合的研究来做到这一点，这与建立表演不可感知的概念相结合。理论轨迹将表明，德勒兹和瓜塔里对去主体化的呼吁有一个迄今未被审视的面貌：去主体化意味着一种内在的（自下而上的）抵抗非人格化、微观政治控制机制的形式，这种控制机制将每个主体限制在一个固定的、受管制的社会存在中。虽然德勒兹和瓜塔里的大部分作品都指向主体性的精神分裂，但变得难以察觉意味着一种不溶解自我结构的抵抗——一种能够在不放弃凝聚力的情况下扩大自我的抵抗。这种形式的抵抗可以被理解为表现性的不可感知：一种微妙而坚定的对生命的肯定。虽然德勒兹的内在哲学与当代表演之间的关系已有学术研究（Cull 2012, Lepecki 2016, Cvejic 2015），但这个项目基于实践的方面将通过我作为戏剧和/或表演哲学家与当代编舞家和戏剧制作人的合作，将表演的不可感知性作为戏剧的一种实验形式展开。该项目将研究戏剧作品作为一种内在的哲学能力：一种难以察觉的、照顾的思维力量，它促进了特定表演的哲学力量的释放。最后，研究将反思这些力量在新资本主义时代挑战主体性生产的能力，将项目的理论和实践部分结合到一个问题化的共享领域。总体而言，本研究希望通过表达和制定行为的不可感知性作为一种将哲学作为行为研究的具体方式来推进行为哲学这一新兴领域，反之亦然。

The project seeks to investigate the ethical and aesthetic implications of Gilles Deleuze's concept of becoming-imperceptible in the dual context of subjectivity and performance production. It intends to do so through a combined theoretical and practice-based research, which in conjunction establishes the concept of performative imperceptibility. The theoretical track will show that there is a hitherto unexamined face of Deleuze and Guattari's cry for desubjectification: Desubjectification implies an immanent (bottom-up) form of resistance against the impersonal, micro-political mechanisms of control, which confine every subject to a fixed and regulated social being. Whilst most of Deleuze and Guattari's writings point towards a schizophrenic scattering of subjectivity, becoming-imperceptible implies a resistance that does not dissolve the self-structure - one that is capable of widening the self without giving up cohesion. This form of resistance can be understood as performative imperceptibility: a subtle but solid affirmation of life. Whilst there is existing scholarship on the relationship between Deleuze's philosophy of immanence and contemporary performance (Cull 2012, Lepecki 2016, Cvejic 2015), the practice-based aspect of this project will unfold performative imperceptibility as an experimental form of dramaturgy through my work as dramaturge and/or performance philosopher in a number of collaborations with contemporary choreographers and theatre-makers. The project will examine dramaturgical work as an immanent philosophical capacity: an imperceptible, caretaking force of thinking, which facilitates the release of the philosophical forces of a given performance. Lastly, the research will reflect on the capacity of these forces to challenge the production of subjectivity in the neo-capitalist era, conjoining the theoretical and practical parts of the project into a shared field of problematization. Overall, the research wishes to advance the emerging field of Performance Philosophy through the articulation and enactment of performative imperceptibility as a specific way to do philosophy as performative research - and vice versa.