Reality principles [electronic resource] : from the absurd to the virtual / Herbert Blau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Relevance : the shadow of a magnitude -- The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd -- The soul-complex of Strindberg : suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer -- From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater -- Performing the chaosmos : farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze -- Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough -- Who's there? community of the question -- The emotional memory of directing -- The commodius vicus of Beckett : vicissitudes of the arts in the science of affliction -- Among the deepening shades : the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest -- Apnea and true illusion : breath(less) in Beckett -- Art and crisis: homeland security and the noble savage -- Ground zero : the original vision (may 16, 2008) -- Blessings to the pope and the witch -- The pathos of dialogue : unable to speak a word -- Thinking history, history thinking -- Why "what history?" -- The human nature of the bot -- Virtually yours: presence, liveness, lessness -- Auto archive.

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