Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Soc?etas Raffaello Sanzio and the Wooster Group, the book positions theatre and performance in technoculture and articulates the processes of aesthetics, metaphysics and politics. This wide-ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena.

数字文化中的戏剧与表演》考察了先进技术的近代史，包括新媒体、虚拟环境、武器系统和医疗创新，并考虑了戏剧、表演和整个文化在这些系统中的演变情况。本书通过表演研究的视角考察了两次伊拉克战争、9/11和反恐战争，并借鉴乔治-阿甘本、阿兰-巴迪欧和马丁-海德格尔的著作，以及贝克特、热内和莎士比亚的戏剧，以及康托尔、福尔曼、索卡斯-拉斐尔-桑齐奥和伍斯特集团的戏剧，将戏剧和表演置于技术文化中，并阐明了美学、形而上学和政治的过程。这项广泛的研究反映了戏剧和表演如何在这些新的文化现象中受到挑战和扩展。