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  • Chapter 4 - Blindness as Second Sight

  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 133-170

  • Summary

    In Chapter Four we look at what is perhaps the most frequent metaphorical use of blindness: to stand for insight, second sight, or prophecy. The chapter situates this within what is known in disability studies as the ‘supercrip trope’, and looks in particular at the theatre’s special interest in Tiresias as key to the perpetuation of this trope. The plays of Maurice Maeterlinck, William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, Brian Friel, Samuel Beckett and John Milton are discussed in this chapter, among others. Finally, the chapter compares the theatre’s (and theatrical spectators’ special implication in this trope with more liberatory ways of figuring blindness in speculative fiction (drawing on the work of Sami Schalk).

  • 7 - Material Conditions

  • from Part III - Deep Pluralism
  • Barry Buzan, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Making Global Society
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 337-348

  • Summary

    The chapter begins the look ahead that is framed in terms of ’deep pluralism’. It surveys the material conditions likely to shape the future, seeing a lot of continuity in the general availablility of a cornucopia of materials and energy, but transformational potentials in digital technology, biotechnology and the falling cost of access to space.