The new issue of Litteraria Pragensia on “Performing Identities in a Mediatised Age” has just bee published in open access. The issue, edited by Martin Procházka and Ondřej Pilný, brings together essays based on contributions to a conference held at Charles University in May 2025 as part of the project CoRe: Beyond Security: The Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building.
- Martin Procházka – Ondřej Pilný: Introduction: Performativity, Media, Identities
- Alice Koubová: Performativity of Socio-Political Double Binds
- Ondřej Pilný: Theatrical Responses to Wall Building: David Hare, Robert Schenkkan, Stacey Gregg
- Clare Wallace: Tragic Replay: Performativity, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children
- Valeriya Sabitova: Olga Ntenta’s Greek Precarious Body: The Body in the Costume of Conflict
- Pavel Drábek: Curating Intercultural Action: Agency between Epistemologies
- Hana Pavelková: Performing Queerness through Translation and Adaptation
- Libuše Heczková – Kateřina Svatoňová: The Camera’s Performativity as an Emancipatory Gesture
- Hazel T. Biana: The Korean Gaze: K-Dramas and Re-Orientalist Representations
- Bogdan Florea: A Second Language Actor’s Schizo-affect Training Using AI: The Human Voice
- Martin Procházka: Performativity on the Net: “Protocological Management” and the “Societies of Control”
- Martin Štefl: Of Technology, Yeats and Automatic Writing: Managing Cultural Identities in the Age of AI Ethics and Beyond
- Mirka Horová: “What Wondrous Machines Have Late Been Spinning!” Probing AI in Postmodern Byronic Metafiction
- Tim Noble: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Performance of Resilience in the Face of Inner Conflict
This thematic issue explores the concept of performativity in relation to a range of media, beginning with the power of dramatic speech and settings and moving on to the performative power of the camera in feminist film and the stereotyping of cultural identities and their conflicts in commercial television dramas. The research focused on the Internet deals with the problems of “protocological management” and the effects of algorithms, profiling or “recommendation engines,” and their significant influence on the control of individuals and societies. We also discuss the operations of AI in theatre, intercultural studies and recent works of fiction. Finally, the argument returns to an exploration of the power of poetic language which generates resilience capable of overcoming a spiritual and existential crisis.
The research for and the editing of this issue were supported by the European Regional Development Fund project “Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building” (reg. no.: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595).
