Abstract
Liveness is the central topic within this contribution to our book. Auslander and van Es discuss the concept of “Liveness”. Auslander can hereby be seen to be one of the “veterans” in the study of liveness and therefore one of the central temporalities we encounter in relation to media and other performance arts. Here he is in conversation with Karin van Es. Her contribution to the topic was released in 2016. In it, she explicitly builds on, but also criticises Auslander’s approach (both older and more recent). The focus of the debate lies on the different views on liveness and media. The discussion is presented under the title “The Time of Our Lives”.
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Quite the opposite: the paper clearly underlines the dominance of the spatial paradigm at the time.
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Silverstone outlines that “mediation has significant consequences for the way in which the world appears in and to everyday life, and as such this mediated appearance in turn provides a framework for the definition and conduct of our relationships to the other, and especially the distant other” (Silverstone 2002: 761).
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McPherson (2006: 202).
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Auslander, P., van Es, K., Hartmann, M. (2019). A Dialogue About Liveness. In: Hartmann, M., Prommer, E., Deckner, K., Görland, S. (eds) Mediated Time. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24950-2_14
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