...J. Hillis Miller Duke University Press 2007 J. Hillis Miller Performativity as Performance / ​ Performativity as Speech Act: ​ Derrida’s Special Theory of Performativity ​My hypotheses: (1) Performativity in the sense of the way a dance...

...Michael Shane Boyle Through a discussion of selected guerilla performances, Internet pranks, and ironic manifestos created by the UC Movement for Efficient Privatization (UCMeP), this essay focuses on the ways student activists at the University of California have turned to satiric performance...

...Richard H. Dammers Transparent Designs—Reading, Performance, and Form in the Spectator Papers . By Ketcham Michael G. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. 2 , 216 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 90 The South Atlantic Quarterly his...

...Curtis W. Ellison Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Curtis W. Ellison Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music It s Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The date is 22 Janu­ ary 1994, and country music fans, artists, family, friends...

...Martha Nell Smith Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Martha Nell Smith Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary This guy, call him Bruce no, he s not a queer, thank God, sir will be a national hero. Jefferson Morley I m always somebody who has a lot...

... revolt and neoliberalism but, rather, a sort of revolt/neoliberalism fold that shifts from stabilizing in institutional functionings to convulsing in revolt. Along with the revolt's character of “neoliberal reset,” a possible additional force within it, a mutant, performáncia (pure performance) residue...

...Andrew McNamara 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Andrew McNamara Apprehension? Performativity and Medium-Specificity in Modern Art For all the talk about feeling, pleasure, and beauty, the aesthetic remains at its root a propo...

... or tax haven. Furthermore, the article shows how grassroot movements, among them Abolish Act 60, have organized against this transformation. Thus, the article demonstrates how the slogan “The Paradise Performs” is largely embedded in legal practices, tax evasion, and fraud. [email protected]...

... that renders its specific reference obsolete. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Stephanie Li Performing Intimacy Using “Race-Specific, Race-Free Language”: Black Private Letters in the Public Sphere The 2008 presidential victory of Barack Obama...

...Mark Pauline Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Mark Pauline Survival Research Laboratories Performs in Austria Briefly, an SRL show consists of a set of ritualized interactions among machines, robots, special effects devices, and compu­ ters, with humans present only as operators...

...Robert L. Shurter Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA ROBERT L. SHURTER THE FIRST Shakespearean play of which we have any record in America was presented in New York on March 5, 1750. From that date until the Revolution...

...Amy Bass Duke University Press 2006 Amy Bass Objectivity Be Damned, or Why I Go to the Olympic Games: A Hands-On Lesson in Performative Nationalism For historians, the question of objectivity was supposed to have been settled back...

...Alan K. Manchester Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener . By Sessions Roger . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1950 . Pp. 127 . $2.50 . 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly two of the best are Vision...

...Fred Moten; Wu Tsang “Sudden Rise at a Given Tune” is the textual component of an eponymous performance by Wu Tsang and Fred Moten given at the Tate Modern, London, March 25, 2017. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 wildness performance References Arendt Hannah...

...Arseli Dokumacı This article proposes a new theory of affordances that is developed through a critical disability and performance lens. Through parallels to be drawn between the creative space of aesthetic performance and the performance of everyday life lived with disability, this new theory...

... a comparative approach by studying performances of masculinity in heterosexual and homosexual commercial sex venues in Rio de Janeiro. The authors argue that masculine performances not only are about homosocial male bonding between clients but also are aspirational performances in which actors must work within...

... on the condemnation of “race thinking” (anchored in the biological) as well as the foreclosure from that critique of “race performativity” (inscribed in the colonial). Gestated during the 1930s and 1940s in political opposition to Nazism's ideology of race, racism as a concept was also conceived Eurocentrically...

...Saygun Gökarıksel This essay explores the embodied forms of power and struggle that are manifest in the Boğaziçi University protests against the authoritarian offensive of the Turkish government. By focusing on the student and faculty protests, especially, the daily gowned performances, it suggests...