The mediatised body

Abstract

 The paper highlights how the booming of digital technologies on stage, as well as the influence of new communication paradigms, have influenced the debate around the actor. In a historical perspective, and using the most relevant theoretical contributions, the author analyses some traces of the debate about the relationship between actor and technologies. In particular, the paper let emerge the discontinui- ty between the approach in the 1960s and the subsequent trend of postmodern and post-structuralist aesthetics. The article points out how the problems concerning the character’s representation lost its centrality compared to the advance of the interests on the ontology of the body on stage. Thus, it emerges that the debate on the actor and the new technologies has often been absorbed by a discourse on the body and its virtualisation.