Dissemination – W2A Responses to Mind Map

Work on reception theory/semiotics – R. Barthes

Reception of messages, signs and symbols - meaning making – relationship between signifier and signified – impact of interpretation in transmission, reception and/or understanding of sign/expression – based upon subject position

Hip-Hop Genius S. Seidel

Reproduction - sampling and remixing

Different levels of authenticity and authorship) – pastiche and intertextuality

The Archive and the Repertoire – D.Taylor

Western logocentrism (page 6)

focus on reproducing through the written word, reducing embodied expression to the written form - limits the power of the written word in interpreting and assisting in the dissemination process

Theatre and the World - R. Bharucha

Transmission within dissemination process (pages 2-6)

impact of globalisation – wider audience - impact upon identity, collective memory and heritage – turning the local experience and shifting the context in which the scenario/expression is received and reproduced – removal of history and specific context - further along dissemination process = further away of the initial experience/ expression: both geographically (physically) and symbolically (meaning) – change/loss responding to nullification of signs/ translations

Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies – C. Balme

Contextual changes in interpretation (pages 1-7)

Changing cultural perspectives - marginalisation of areas – lost from dissemination process/ostracised – value system - Interdisciplinary approach to theatre studies = different interpretations = different ways to pass on knowledge – academic complexity

Agenda (page 137)

conscious or subconscious – has an impact upon the dissemination process through interpretative intervention – creating a value system based upon subjectivity, ideological and cultural beliefs (Balme 137)

Performance and Cosmopolitics – H. Gilbert and J. Lo

3 types of Cosmopolitanism (pages 5-9)

Moral/ethical: loyalty to humanity as a whole - universal codes of rights and justice - universal community / polymorphic universe - universal plus difference

Political: universal rights and duties – multi-level transnational governance – UN& EU – NGOs – the legitimacy of plural loyalties – forms of belonging / sense of location

Cultural: an openness to divergent cultural influences – an inclusive stance towards cultural difference – to draw selectively on a variety of cultural meanings – “thick/thin”