We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the la…

- Philip Auslander

If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no long…

- Philip Auslander

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority…

- Philip Auslander

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must …

- Philip Auslander

It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-wor…

- Philip Auslander

To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is …

- Philip Auslander