The theatre was necessarily desexualized (Beckett) before it could be resexualized again (Barker). … The thing-in-itself is as unknowable in the theatre as it is unknowable in the phenomenal world. At best its contours can be described; the thing-in-itself cannot. As the test site for the limits of empirical knowledge, the theatre’s stress and tension [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:18AM on January 11, 2012