Features of Liquid Modernity in Heine Muller’s Counter-theater

Abstract

Iiquid modernity is the most accurate description of the world of the second and third millennium as a result of the transformations and displacements that the Western and Arab world witnessed as a result of the rapid technological developments that made the individual have only one choice, which is integration and coexistence with that flexibility and liquid modernity is an inevitable result, as liquid modernity as a term has references  Philosophy contributed to its emergence, especially the ideas and propositions of philosophers such as (Nietzsche, Deleuze, Michel, Foucault, and Derrida) who dug into the hierarchies of stagnant Western culture and built its glories on myth and its superstitious features. However, the development of science and the creation of new theories had a great impact on the emergence of the era of liquid modernity to the prevailing culture in the era of speed, which reflected that culture on art and aesthetic creativity, so that theater is one of the types of arts that was greatly affected because of those roots, that is, archeology that produced liquid modernity, so that the anti-theater later on is the appropriate context for theatrical experimentation, especially the theatrical text.

• The study tagged (features of liquid modernity in the counter-theater (Heiner).


• Mueller) consists of four chapters، the first chapter is the research methodology and includes (1- the research problem 2- the importance of the research and the need for a mechanism 3- the goal of the research 4-the limits of the research 5-defining the terms) The second chapter included the theoretical framework of the research and included 1- Excavations of Liquid Modernity 2- Liquid Thinking in the Global Stage The third chapter included the research procedures, and included 1-The research community 2-The research sample 3- Research methodology 4- Research tool 5- Sample analysis, and the text of a play was analyzed (Hamlet's machine), and the fourth chapter included the most important results of the research. The two researchers obtained results during the analysis of the sample, the most important of which are: (Heiner Mueller's theatrical ideas, similar to the propositions of liquid modernity, were characterized by ideas that always seek to dissolve and dilute the graceful language in the theatrical text as a solid cultural pattern, so that the text becomes antithetical) The chapter also included the conclusions, as well as the documentation margins, It concludes with sources and references.