Contemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention.Under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds.Performance works, however, can offer insights into alternative politico-economic models.In this major contribution to the fields of contemporary performance and political economy, Katerina Paramana proposes that the investigation of performance works as economies can make the insights performance works offer visible.She positions the examination in relation to contemporary critiques of capitalism, neo-feudalism, and their by-products, and proposes and develops the notion of "oikonomia" as a means to theorize artworks which, through their house (oikos) rules (nomoi), propose ethico-political challenges to the economies in which they are embedded.For this, Paramana looks at politically positioned performance works created and presen