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7. Modes of Dis-/Engagement

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Author: Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone

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This chapter considers ‘Modes of Dis-/Engagement’: strategies used by performers to reassert some degree of distance, even in intimate performance spaces which seemed conducive to a sense of immediacy. Hostility, alienation, and aggression, as well as abjection and the courting of disgust, were features of both punk and altcom. The meta-comic could play a part in generating critical distance. Thematised detachment and distrust of sentiment also suggested a recognition of, and attempt to work through, the postmodern condition, exploring the elusiveness of feeling (in both senses), and touch where substance seems to recede (including punk’s dis-articulation of structure; Buzzcocks’ ‘Why Can’t I Touch It?’; and Ben Elton’s paradoxical over-articulation in routines about the dislocation of touch).

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Title

Modes of Dis-/Engagement

Book

The Punk Turn in Comedy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-72840-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-72841-4

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72841-4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72841-4_7

Author:

Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

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