{"id":49510,"date":"2022-09-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cupblog.bluefusesystems.com\/?p=49510"},"modified":"2022-09-09T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T09:06:18","slug":"forthcoming-addressing-ongoing-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/forthcoming-addressing-ongoing-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming: Addressing Ongoing Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>In our next issue, TDR is publishing two significant essays in the TDR Comments section of the journal: \u201cA Letter from Moscow\u201d by a scholar who lives there; and Richard Schechner\u2019s \u201cPostpone the Great Game.\u201d Both essays deal with ongoing threats to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201cLetter from Moscow,\u201d TDR\u2019s correspondent writes about what it\u2019s like to live in the Russian capital after Putin\u2019s army invaded Ukraine. Our letter writer is a performance studies scholar with extensive experience both in the USA and Eastern Europe. The scholar reports that the city is not saturated by military symbols, the main institutions are functioning, there is no mobilization. \u201cThe new cage is being built smoothly and gradually,\u201d the scholar notes. Still, opposition to the war is not tolerated. Protestors are labeled \u201cforeign agents.\u201d They are harassed and arrested. As the war grinds on, the situation in Moscow deteriorates. And as during the Cold War, bright minds and talents are leaving Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Schechner\u2019s essay refers to \u201cThe Great Game\u201d: the 19th-century struggle among British, Russian, and regional soldiers, spies, merchants, emirs, kings, and adventurers in Afghanistan to control access to India. According to Schechner, this \u201cGreat Game\u201d has new life as the Ukraine war. Calling these kinds of operations a \u201cgame\u201d recognizes their performativity. War has always been theatrical, performed in \u201ctheatres of war,\u201d widely spectated both live and via media. But is war inevitable? In the 1930s both Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek recognized the invasion of China by the Japanese as an existential threat to China. The two adversaries agreed to postpone their civil war, their \u201cgreat game,\u201d in order to defeat Japan. Noting that climate change is an existential threat to the world, Schechner proposes postponing all wars to focus humanity\u2019s collective effort on \u201cdefeating\u201d climate change. Once climate change is dealt with, humans can resume warring\u2014but in a new way, using virtual means that do not damage the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit Cambridge Core to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/the-drama-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest issue of TDR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our next issue, TDR is publishing two significant essays in the TDR Comments section of the journal: \u201cA Letter from Moscow\u201d by a scholar who lives there; and Richard Schechner\u2019s \u201cPostpone the Great Game.\u201d Both essays deal with ongoing threats to the world. In the \u201cLetter from Moscow,\u201d TDR\u2019s correspondent writes about what it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":822,"featured_media":49511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[5356,8523,9839,7092],"coauthors":[10118],"class_list":["post-49510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities","category-music-and-drama","tag-performance-studies","tag-tdr","tag-the-drama-review","tag-theatre-studies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49519,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510\/revisions\/49519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}