ПРИСТАЈАЊЕ И ПРЕСТУП: ДВИЈЕ ВРСТЕ ПОЛИТИЧНОСТИ
COMPLIANCE AND TRANSGRESSION: TWO TYPES OF POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we insist on thesis that all theatre is essentially political, but that there are two types of politics – of compliance and of transgression. The first type is characterized by (in)direct reproduction of ideological delusions or even avoidance of the political themes altogether (as, for example, is the case of, so called, apolitical theatre), while the other type is dedicated to exposing false unhistorical interpretations and then replacing them with ideas based on progressive conception of human society. Therefore, the point is not so much in the things represented on stage, but the implicit interpretations of these things/situations/ideas. For this reason, our attention is focused mainly on the disciplines of theory and criticism because we think that their representatives perform the role of the “guardians” of the unjust society by insisting on reactionary, passive, treacherous politics of compliance. With their strategic manipulations (such as emphasis on formal characteristics of a literary piece or obscuring of meaning), they prevent the audience from asking the urgent questionsand consequently from possible rebellion against repressive, discriminatory or (neo) imperial rule of the dominant regime. This specifically applies to current postmodernist trends in relativisation of the truth and negation of all epistemological possibilities in general.

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