How much is enough? The relevance of this question comes from individual expectations regarding value. What is value and how does it manifest through our daily interactions? There is a qualitative difference between the concept of value and individual and collective values. Is there such a thing as a common good when it comes to either? Values are a social construct formed through a process of analysis, dialogue, and assessment within any given community. Though each individual's value system has varying degrees of difference, an agreed-upon system of values is created within and through communication, communion, and coalition. In contemporary societies, it seems the importance of unified community values has diminished in favor of the individual due to the rise of late capitalism, consumer culture, mediatization, political polarization, and the various signposts of neoliberalism. Postdramatic scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann states, “It is a fundamental fact of today's Western societies that all human experiences (life, eroticism, happiness, recognition) are tied to commodities or more precisely their consumption and possession (and not to a discourse).” Lehmann's assertion leads me to ask some striking questions relating to the theatrical practices that guide this essay. Namely, how have large-scale social systems of the contemporary era increasingly divested from community values, instead opting for smaller and smaller factions of identification? Without belief in a larger community good, what use is democracy?

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（回复）想象城邦：观众参与作为后戏剧话语


多少才足够？这个问题的相关性来自个人对价值的期望。什么是价值，它是如何通过我们的日常互动体现出来的？价值概念与个人和集体价值之间存在质的差异。当涉及到两者时，是否存在所谓的共同利益？价值观是通过任何特定社区内部的分析、对话和评估过程形成的社会结构。尽管每个人的价值体系都有不同程度的差异，但一个公认的价值体系是在内部并通过沟通、共融和联盟创造的。在当代社会，由于晚期资本主义的兴起、消费文化、媒介化、政治两极分化和新自由主义的各种路标，统一的社区价值观的重要性似乎已经减弱，有利于个人。后戏剧学者汉斯-蒂斯·莱曼 （Hans-Thies Lehmann） 指出：“当今西方社会的一个基本事实是，所有人类经验（生活、情欲、幸福、认可）都与商品有关，或者更准确地说，与它们的消费和拥有（而不是话语）有关。莱曼的断言让我提出了一些与指导本文的戏剧实践有关的尖锐问题。也就是说，当代的大规模社会系统是如何越来越多地从社区价值观中剥离出来，而是选择越来越小的身份派别的？没有更大的社区利益的信念，民主又有什么用呢？