Bells and Alarm Clocks: Theatre and Theatre Research at the Millenium

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Hospital Operations ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
As If

Space, as Einstein has taught us, has no limits, and time is relative to where you are moving and the speed of light. Our millenium, then, is only a speck in eternal space. It is, nevertheless, a point relative to which we are positioned and on which we place a limit—a date—so that our actions may be chronicled, measured, and brought to some sort of completion, thus releasing us from living forever in the present. Yet, notwithstanding our ability to construct, contain and count time, somewhere someone has made a slip, for there is a ‘glitch’ in the system that still prevents millions of computers from recognizing the year 2000, by which devilry we are sent back to less than zero, to zero twice, 00. This error may well have disastrous consequences, although it would be preferable not have any of them happen—hospital operations failing, aeroplanes losing their bearings and going down in apocalyptic spectacles that are considered appropriate for a millenial ending. is as if this error might be interpreted as a token of what Jean Baudrillard, in a different context that has nothing to do with computers, sardonically suggests may be our desire to wipe out history, even, perhaps, to start again from scratch. Baudrillard's is, of course, one of multiple theses on the ‘end of history’ and millenial nothingness that have emerged, not least via the theatre, with the approach of the twenty-first century.

Generation fables and the ‘end of history’

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Jennie Bristow
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Outside The Box

This chapter examines ‘generationalism’ — using the language of generations to narrate the social and political. It argues that generationalism means that we are in danger of taking historical stories way too personally. The chapter shows that the generationalism of the Sixties was as much about the failure of established institutions and ideologies to grasp what was happening as it was about the experience of the kids and the counterculture. Moving on half a century, the generationalism of the early twenty-first century tells us as much about our present anxieties as it does about the Sixties as a historical period. Whereas the Sixties Boomer was, until fairly recently, a source of wistful fascination, often bringing with it a romanticised nostalgia for a time when people felt they could think and live outside the box, the Boomer-blaming of the present day mobilises the stereotype as an example of everything that is seen to be wrong with the past.

scholarly journals Invoking State Responsibility in the Twenty-first Century

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 798-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Brown Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
First Century ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Multilateral Treaty

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the international community is globalizing, integrating, and fragmenting, all at the same time. States continue to be central, but many other actors have also become important: international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, corporations, ad hoc transnational groups both legitimate and illicit, and individuals. For the year 2000, the Yearbook of International Organizations reports that there were 922 international intergovernmental organizations and 9988 international nongovernmental organizations. If organizations associated with multilateral treaty agreements, bilateral government organizations, other international bodies (including religious and secular institutes) , and internationally oriented national organizations are included, the number of international organizations reaches nearly thirty thousand. Another twenty-four thousand are listed as inactive or unconfirmed. Corporations that produce globally are similarly numerous. As of September 27, 2002, an estimated 6,252,829,827 individuals lived on our planet. Some of these individuals and groups have made claims against states for breaching their obligations, particularly for human rights violations. In short, international law inhabits a much more complicated world than the one that existed fifty or even thirty years ago.

„What Disappears Is Man in the Proper Sense of the Word”: An Intricate Game with the Figure of the Author in Houellebecq’s novel "The Map and the Territory"

Tekstualia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (41) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Marcin Czardybon
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Proper Sense ◽  
Alexandre Kojeve ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Relationship

The article concentrates on the signs of authorial presence in Michel Houellebecq’s novel The Map and the Territory, including the author’s name, achievements and emploi. A seemingly trivial procedure, so frequent in postmodern prose, in Houellebecq’s work, it becomes an important element of a complex structure, which engages in a polemic with the regime of postmodernity. The article also traces Houellebecq’s debt to major trends in European philosophy. The Map and the Territory problematizes the relationship between the original and the copy as well as the notion of the end of history. The article references, among others, Alexandre Kojève, Martin Heidegger, Plato and Jean Baudrillard.

scholarly journals Metr jako symulakrum

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 220-239
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Sylwester Mastalski
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
First Century ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Twenty First Century

Meter as a simulacrum This text presents an attempt to conceptualize the poetics of versification in Kamil Brewiński’s poetic book Clubbing (Kraków 2013), with the background of the critical reception of the book, by the view given by the theory of simulation by Jean Baudrillard. The article is based on two unpublished conference speeches presented at conference on “Twenty First Century in Literature”, 2014) and “Poetry – Culture – Poetry. Contemporary Perspectives”, 2015). Some excerpts were used before in my doctoral dissertation (2015).

scholarly journals Happiness is Not Fun: Godard, the 20th Century, and Badiou

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Michael Walsh
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
French Cinema ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Film And Video

"Godard is the most contemporary of directors, one who has never set a film in the past. Yet since the 1990s he has produced a whole cycle of works whose tones are retrospective, memorial, elegaic. These include JLG/JLG:Auto-portrait du Décembre (1995), the much-discussed Histoire(s) du Cinèma (begun in 1988, completed in 1998) 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (commissioned by the BFI for the centennial of cinema in 1995), The Old Place (commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in 1999), On the Origin of the Twenty-First Century (commissioned by the Cannes Film Festival for the year 2000), Dans Le Noir du Temps (a contribution to the 2002 compilation film Ten Minutes Older), and the 2006 Centre Pompidou exhibition “Travels in Utopia.” This last was a retrospective in the conventional sense (screenings of four decades worth of film and video by Godard, Godard/Gorin, Godard/Mièville, etc), but was also retrospective as an installation, divided into three spaces identified as hier, l’avant-hier, and aujourd’hui (yesterday, the day before yesterday, and today), with tomorrow notable for its absence..."

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Laats
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
As If

From a twenty-first century perspective, it can seem as if everything has changed. Evangelical and fundamentalist schools have made drastic changes in their teaching and lifestyle rules. Even the most traditionalist schools have adopted some of the structures of mainstream higher education. However, some of the tensions established in the early twentieth century remain strong. Faculty purges, student protests, and inter-school rivalries are just as powerful today as they have been since the 1920s. New anxieties about faculty fidelity to creationist truths repeat patterns laid down decades earlier. And old rivalries between fundamentalist and evangelical institutions show up in new and unexpected ways.

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