Lucia Ruprecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 4867825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucia Ruprecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruprecht |
| SIGNATURE | RUPRECHT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emmanuel College - Massachusetts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
Gesture, Energy, Critique
Lucia Ruprecht's chapter juxtaposes Robert Longo's c. 1980 Men in the Cities series of oversized drawings of bodies in energetic convulsion with Boris Charmatz's 2017 dance piece 10000 Gestures. The insights offered by this constellation cast light on questions of choreographed gestural energy. They also enable teasing out nuances of gestural political critique in the 1980s and the contemporary period, respectively. The still frames of Men in the…
Introduction
The introduction to this special section of Performance Philosophy takes Giorgio Agamben s remarks about the mediality and potentiality of gesture as a starting point to rethink gesture s nexus with ethics. Shifting the emphasis from philosophical reflection to corporeal practice, it defines gestural ethics as an acting-otherwise which comes into being in the particularities of singular gestural practice, its forms, kinetic qualities, temporal di…
In Our Hands
The following conversation aims to trace the role of gesture and gestural thinking in Rebecca Schneider s work, and to tease out the specific gestural ethics which arises in her writings. In particular, Schneider thinks about the politics of citation and reiteration for an ethics of call and response that emerges in the gesture of the hail. Both predicated upon a fundamentally ethical relationality and susceptible to ideological investment, the h…
Gesture, Interruption, Vibration
This article compares Rudolf von Laban's and Mary Wigman's practices and theories of gestural flow with Walter Benjamin's theory of gesture as interruption. For Laban and Wigman, gesture mirrors a vitalist understanding of life that is based on the rediscovery of transhistorical continuities between human and cosmic energy. Benjamin's Brechtian gestures address inscriptions and manipulations of bodies, which provide comment on the conditions of s…
Ambivalent Agency
Virtuoso Servitude and (De)Mobilization in Robert Walser, W. G. Sebald, and the Brothers Quay
This article proposes a parallel reading of Robert Walser's novel Jakob von Gunten (1909) and W.G. Sebald's “Ambros Adelwarth” from the collection Die Ausgewanderten (1992), set off against an excursus on the 1995 filmic adaptation of Walser's text by the Quay Brothers, Institute Benjamenta. It focuses on the relevance in Walser of virtuoso forms of servitude as practices of demobilization and desertion at a time when teleological mobility and sp…
Ambivalent Agency
Cultural Pleasure
Pleasure and Affinity in W. G. Sebald and Robert Walser
This article addresses the dialectic between melancholia and pleasure in W. G. Sebald by focusing on the author's affinity with Robert Walser. It explores Sebald's intertextual incorporation of the lost literary friend as both re‐enactment of Walserian pleasures and consoling melancholic practice which is pleasurable in itself. Much of the specific delight that Walser offers is based on his exuberant and idiosyncratic style of writing, and his ex…
Gesture, Interruption, Vibration
This article compares Rudolf von Laban's and Mary Wigman's practices and theories of gestural flow with Walter Benjamin's theory of gesture as interruption. For Laban and Wigman, gesture mirrors a vitalist understanding of life that is based on the rediscovery of transhistorical continuities between human and cosmic energy. Benjamin's Brechtian gestures address inscriptions and manipulations of bodies, which provide comment on the conditions of s…
In Our Hands
The following conversation aims to trace the role of gesture and gestural thinking in Rebecca Schneider s work, and to tease out the specific gestural ethics which arises in her writings. In particular, Schneider thinks about the politics of citation and reiteration for an ethics of call and response that emerges in the gesture of the hail. Both predicated upon a fundamentally ethical relationality and susceptible to ideological investment, the h…
Ambivalent Agency
Cultural Pleasure
Pleasure and Affinity in W. G. Sebald and Robert Walser
This article addresses the dialectic between melancholia and pleasure in W. G. Sebald by focusing on the author's affinity with Robert Walser. It explores Sebald's intertextual incorporation of the lost literary friend as both re‐enactment of Walserian pleasures and consoling melancholic practice which is pleasurable in itself. Much of the specific delight that Walser offers is based on his exuberant and idiosyncratic style of writing, and his ex…
Ambivalent Agency
Virtuoso Servitude and (De)Mobilization in Robert Walser, W. G. Sebald, and the Brothers Quay
This article proposes a parallel reading of Robert Walser's novel Jakob von Gunten (1909) and W.G. Sebald's “Ambros Adelwarth” from the collection Die Ausgewanderten (1992), set off against an excursus on the 1995 filmic adaptation of Walser's text by the Quay Brothers, Institute Benjamenta. It focuses on the relevance in Walser of virtuoso forms of servitude as practices of demobilization and desertion at a time when teleological mobility and sp…
Ambivalent Agency
Gesture, Interruption, Vibration
This article compares Rudolf von Laban's and Mary Wigman's practices and theories of gestural flow with Walter Benjamin's theory of gesture as interruption. For Laban and Wigman, gesture mirrors a vitalist understanding of life that is based on the rediscovery of transhistorical continuities between human and cosmic energy. Benjamin's Brechtian gestures address inscriptions and manipulations of bodies, which provide comment on the conditions of s…
Introduction
The introduction to this special section of Performance Philosophy takes Giorgio Agamben s remarks about the mediality and potentiality of gesture as a starting point to rethink gesture s nexus with ethics. Shifting the emphasis from philosophical reflection to corporeal practice, it defines gestural ethics as an acting-otherwise which comes into being in the particularities of singular gestural practice, its forms, kinetic qualities, temporal di…
In Our Hands
The following conversation aims to trace the role of gesture and gestural thinking in Rebecca Schneider s work, and to tease out the specific gestural ethics which arises in her writings. In particular, Schneider thinks about the politics of citation and reiteration for an ethics of call and response that emerges in the gesture of the hail. Both predicated upon a fundamentally ethical relationality and susceptible to ideological investment, the h…
Gesture, Energy, Critique
Lucia Ruprecht's chapter juxtaposes Robert Longo's c. 1980 Men in the Cities series of oversized drawings of bodies in energetic convulsion with Boris Charmatz's 2017 dance piece 10000 Gestures. The insights offered by this constellation cast light on questions of choreographed gestural energy. They also enable teasing out nuances of gestural political critique in the 1980s and the contemporary period, respectively. The still frames of Men in the…
Introduction
Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Dance (4 works) · Gesture (4 works) · Ambivalence (3 works) · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies (3 works)