Guy Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 235427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State Polytechnic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Devlin's Love: Autopoiesis and Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes
This paper uses the concept of autopoiesis to describe Harold Pinter's approach to dramatic composition.The playwright strikes a first note and allows the play to emerge from the resonances and feedback patterns of that note.This autopoietical aesthetic, I argue, began with Samuel Beckett and flows forward through an important lineage of postwar drama.Because of its compression and its self-referential qualities, Pinter's Ashes to Ashes shows how…
A strange lobster tale of self-sacrificial transversality: Or, transversal poetics flourishes in the spectral ether of Deleuze, Bataille, and Shakespeare
Written from the perspective of Transversal Poetics, this essay involves an exploration of the theory’s various selves in the context of a self-immolating spectacle staged at London’s New Globe Theatre by the theory’s progenitor, Dr. Bryan Reynolds. The essay outlines the history of this scandalous affair, which was inspired by the work of Rodrigo Garcia (Accidens: Matar Para Comer), Deleuze and Guattari, and George Bataille. Transversal Poetics …
The Captain in LA: Reza Abdoh's Bricolage and the Rise of Neoliberalism
The Captain in LA:Reza Abdoh's Bricolage and the Rise of Neoliberalism Guy Zimmerman (bio) Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary, a documentary film by Adam Soch that premiered at the Films on Art Festival in Lisbon on October 2, 2015 and is now making the rounds on the festival circuit, serves as an unsettling reminder of how far we have traveled politically during the two decades since Abdoh's death in 1995 from complications due to AIDS. The film is r…
Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Forness Mud
Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Fornes's Mud
Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Fornes’s Mud Guy Zimmerman (bio) Many who write about the playwright Maria Irene Fornes’s work comment with reverence about the experience of watching those productions she herself directed.1 Managing somehow to combine frank depictions of cruelty and violence with an odd, otherworldly charm, Fornes’s direction conveyed a distinct sui generis quality that …
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Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Forness Mud
Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Fornes's Mud
Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Fornes’s Mud Guy Zimmerman (bio) Many who write about the playwright Maria Irene Fornes’s work comment with reverence about the experience of watching those productions she herself directed.1 Managing somehow to combine frank depictions of cruelty and violence with an odd, otherworldly charm, Fornes’s direction conveyed a distinct sui generis quality that …
The Captain in LA: Reza Abdoh's Bricolage and the Rise of Neoliberalism
The Captain in LA:Reza Abdoh's Bricolage and the Rise of Neoliberalism Guy Zimmerman (bio) Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary, a documentary film by Adam Soch that premiered at the Films on Art Festival in Lisbon on October 2, 2015 and is now making the rounds on the festival circuit, serves as an unsettling reminder of how far we have traveled politically during the two decades since Abdoh's death in 1995 from complications due to AIDS. The film is r…
A strange lobster tale of self-sacrificial transversality: Or, transversal poetics flourishes in the spectral ether of Deleuze, Bataille, and Shakespeare
Written from the perspective of Transversal Poetics, this essay involves an exploration of the theory’s various selves in the context of a self-immolating spectacle staged at London’s New Globe Theatre by the theory’s progenitor, Dr. Bryan Reynolds. The essay outlines the history of this scandalous affair, which was inspired by the work of Rodrigo Garcia (Accidens: Matar Para Comer), Deleuze and Guattari, and George Bataille. Transversal Poetics …
Devlin's Love: Autopoiesis and Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes
This paper uses the concept of autopoiesis to describe Harold Pinter's approach to dramatic composition.The playwright strikes a first note and allows the play to emerge from the resonances and feedback patterns of that note.This autopoietical aesthetic, I argue, began with Samuel Beckett and flows forward through an important lineage of postwar drama.Because of its compression and its self-referential qualities, Pinter's Ashes to Ashes shows how…
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