... Performances often challenge the limits of artists. But they also challenge those of their viewers. This chapter puts theorists like Althusser, Brecht, Boal, and Rancière in conversation with performers like Michel Melamed, Nao Bustamante, and Rocio Boliver to argue that performance is also...

... the introduction of the Canadian media theorist’s work. This introduction was channeled by a kind of doppelgänger theorist who both mirrors and redirects McLuhan’s very flexible body of work: Takemura Ken’ichi, a man deeply embedded in the advertising world. The chapter outlines the contours of the lively public...

..., associative play. Creating a genealogy of laziness’s theorists, and demonstrating that these theorists of “doing nothing” are consistently doing something (typically, producing compelling writing), the chapter finds one curious—and curiously instructive—terminus for historical idling, lazing, and lounging...

... During the last thirty years, we have seen a proliferation of the use of the word “performance.” Artists such as Stelarc and theorists such as Jon McKensie and Rossana Reguillo show how economic performance, sexual performance, the performance of “the body,” discursive performance, technological...

... are considered among the richest repositories of gold in the world. So earth-beings are endangered, and political conflict has become overly ontological. Building on the work of theorists that have inspired the book, the epilogue discusses conceptually this new political manifestation as well as formalized...