2025 (35) 70

Issued: 12 / 2025
Language: english / ISSN: 2571-452X
244 pages

This thematic issue explores the concept of performativity in relation to a range of media, beginning with the power of dramatic speech and settings and moving on to the performative power of the camera in feminist film and the stereotyping of cultural identities and their conflicts in commercial television dramas. The research focused on the Internet deals with the problems of “protocological management” and the effects of algorithms, profiling or “recommendation engines,” and their significant influence on the control of individuals and societies. We also discuss the operations of AI in theatre, intercultural studies and recent works of fiction. Finally, the argument returns to an exploration of the power of poetic language which generates resilience capable of overcoming a spiritual and existential crisis.

The research for and the editing of this issue were supported by the European Regional Development Fund project “Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building” (reg. no.: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595).

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Performing Identities in a Mediatised Age

Introduction: Performativity, Media, Identities Martin Procházka – Ondřej Pilný, p. 1-12
Performativity of Socio-Political Double Binds Alice Koubová, p. 13-30
Theatrical Responses to Wall Building: David Hare, Robert Schenkkan, Stacey Gregg Ondřej Pilný, p. 31-49
Tragic Replay: Performativity, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children Clare Wallace, p. 50-65
Olga Ntenta’s Greek Precarious Body: The Body in the Costume of Conflict Valeriya Sabitova, p. 66-81
Curating Intercultural Action: Agency between Epistemologies Pavel Drábek, p. 82-106
Performing Queerness through Translation and Adaptation Hana Pavelková, p. 107-119
The Camera’s Performativity as an Emancipatory Gesture Libuše Heczková – Kateřina Svatoňová, p. 120-142
The Korean Gaze: K-Dramas and Re-Orientalist Representations Hazel T. Biana, p. 143-160
A Second Language Actor’s Schizo-affect Training Using AI: The Human Voice Bogdan Florea, p. 161-174
Performativity on the Net: “Protocological Management” and the “Societies of Control” Martin Procházka, p. 175-186
Of Technology, Yeats and Automatic Writing: Managing Cultural Identities in the Age of AI Ethics and Beyond Martin Štefl, p. 187-207
“What Wondrous Machines Have Late Been Spinning!” Probing AI in Postmodern Byronic Metafiction Mirka Horová, p. 208-225
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Performance of Resilience in the Face of Inner Conflict Tim Noble, p. 226-239
Notes on Contributors p. 240-243