Acknowledgements
Introduction. The Virtual as a Theatrical Force
Chapter 1. Potentiality and the Virtual
The Depletion of Potentiality: Motion and Action
Motion and Growth in the Poetics and Nāṭyaśāstra
Other Forms
Actual and Virtual
Potentiality as an Ontological Horizon
Chapter 2. Genesis and the Virtual
Strandbeests
Interfusing
Theatre as a Technical Object
Gestural Potentiality
The Transducer
Chapter 3. Violence and Touch
Land of Palms
The Technicity of Touch
Violent Conditions
Touch and Event
Repotentialising Matter
Engendering Practice: On Environmentality
Chapter 4. Organism and Gesture
Organism and the Field of Potentiality
Diaphanous Organismicity
Organism and Machine
Omnia
Response: Against Communication
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
Biography
Zornitsa Dimitrova is a theatre researcher focusing on the philosophy of technology, the ecological turn, vulnerability studies, and the aesthetics of the Anthropocene. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Münster. Research monographs include Literary Worlds and Deleuze: Expression as Mimesis and Event (2017) and the present book, Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture (2022). Pieces on theatre have appeared in Deleuze Studies, The New Theatre Quarterly, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Performance Philosophy, and Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies.
