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Christopher Schmidt
Issue 116
For those who follow closely the contemporary American poetry scene, perhaps no recent figure has made a greater intervention in received ideas of poetic excellence than Kenneth Goldsmith. This self-described...
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Marco Caracciolo
Issue 168
...World of Warcraft (2004) and Valve’s Half Life (1998). Compare Golumbia’s indictment with Ian Bogost’s argument—in a book predating Golumbia’s article by two years—that “videogames’ usefulness comes . . ....
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Lorenzo Lazzari
Issue 169
...the consumer market in the late 1960s. By combining cameras with control monitors, they were able to experiment with performances in front of the camera, recording them while simultaneously being...
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Paul Prudence
Issue 146
...always impoverished and uncertain. Imagination fills it with the treasures of memory and knowledge.” Caillois’s own database was one defined in a pre-digitized, barely computerized world. His meditations on Agates,...
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Gene A. Plunka
Issue 118
...directors who have staged Genet’s plays is divided into six parts: “Setting the Stage,” “Politics and Performance,” “Genet and Experimental Performance,” “Key Productions,” “Genet: Cinema and Dance,” and “Performing Genet.”...
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Orchid Tierney
Issue 160
...compares to other years,” National Geographic, Aug. 29, 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazon-fires-cause-deforestation-graphic-map. Accessed March 29, 2021. Choy, Timothy K. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. Duke University Press,...
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Françoise Vergès
Issue 160
...Joyce. “What is the Environmental Impact Of The Mining Industry?” WorldAtlas, 25 April 2017, www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-the-mining-industry.html Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of spirit.” Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com/word/spirit. Kilomba, Grada. “The Mask: Remembering Slavery,...
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Jody Sperling
Issue 160
...into the atmosphere as an eddy or gust. With “Wind Rose” (2019),1111www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1kPOOcZQ8 a collaboration with composer Matthew Burtner, I focused on making the connections between breath and wind palpable. Wind...
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Sue-Ellen Case
Issue 98/99
In the past few decades, naked bodies have taken the stage to aggressively signal the power of theater and performance. In the experiments of The Living Theater and productions such...
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Lewis Seifert
Issue 166
...had become so dire that Superintendent of Finances Jean-Baptiste Colbert made forest management one of his earliest and most pressing priorities, commissioning a survey of France’s forests in 1661, followed...
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Sydney Levy
Issue 160
...can imagine, its own highly complex set of links; the printer, the electronic database providers, the visitors of these databases all over the world, the distributors of the journal, the...
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Thomas J. Armbrecht
Issue 134
...of his career and then ceased to do so, without comment, after 1960. Scheie argues that Barthes’ abandonment of the theatre reveals something important about the development of his thoughts...
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James Phillips
Issue 141
...to have broken in upon Eddie. What survives of the legend in being transposed to the subcultural Tokyo of Shinjuku’s bar scene is external performance. Freud’s universalization of Oedipus’s predicament...
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Freddie Rokem
Issue 98/99
It is comparatively easy to set up a basic model for epic theater. For practical experiments I usually picked as my example of completely simple, “natural” epic theater an incident...
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Marielle Macé, Alexis Stanley
Issue 160
...not exactly a responsibility, but something comparable to a compromise, commitment, or promise. It is a familiar tragedy that we breathe in a suffocating world and share in air polluted...
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Jean-Jacques Thomas
Issue 100
Dear Sirs, After consulting with my Personal Management Team, the Literary Agency of Baxter, Newfoundland, Portland & Pfaff (BNPP – Hollywood), with my French lawyer, Antwan Bensoufflant-Doidefé for ™ and...
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Steve Mentz
Issue 160
...fully comprehend. The list of poetic works whose language most commonly appears as exemplary of the sublime–Milton’s Paradise Lost, Shelley’s “Mont Blanc,” Shakespeare’s King Lear, Wordsworth’s The Prelude–suggest that the...
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Ada Smailbegović
Issue 166
...in this neighborhood,1 untethered from it now even in the most remote narrative sense for more than ten years, and yet I have come to see the trees more than...
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Delali Kumavie
Issue 160
...June 2021, www.oed.com/view/Entry/191079. Véronneau, S. J. H., et al. “Survival at High Altitudes: Wheel-Well Passengers.” United States Federal Aviation Administration Civil Aeromedical Institute, Office of Aviation Medicine, October 1996, www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/1990s/media/am96-25.pdf...
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Paul Youngquist
Issue 160
...sound that’s related to the sound of sound.” Collective improvisation aspires to achieve complete communion. It breathes silence into being. Breath sustains the fullness of the sound of sound. For...
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Lisa Zunshine
Issue 159
...of fiction do not provide “insights.” Contrary to common expectation, they are not “oracles” designed to “deliver laws of experience, deep abiding truths about the world, ‘messages’ about who we...
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Kieran M. Murphy
Issue 160
...Guardian, 8 June 2020, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/i-cant-breathe-george-floyds-words-reverberate-oppression. Accessed 10 July 2021. Rediker, Marcus. Foreword. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott, 2018, pp....
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Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 160
...2008. Giroux, Henri. “Neoliberal Fascism and the Echoes of History.” Truthdig, 2 August 2018, www.truthdig.com/articles/neoliberal-fascism-and-the-echoes-of-history/. Accessed 7 July 2021. Ross, Kristin. May ’68 and Its Afterlives. University of Chicago Press....
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Stelarc
Issue 169
...component. These projects and performances problematize what a body is, how it performs, and what it means to be human. The human is an unstable construct that historically is always...
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Luk Van den Dries
Issue 160
...tight collaboration with Jan Fabre and the three most important performers/teachers of the Belgian theatre company, Troubleyn (Annabelle Chambon, Cédric Charron, and Ivana Jozič). The book sheds new light on...
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Kym Cunningham
Issue 158
...Black maternity—and, particularly, the titular character’s performances—fugitively evade the natal alienation of social death. Furthermore, such performances link past, present, and future stage productions as well as character representations, recreating...
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Kristen Renzi
Issue 130
...that this tradition has placed in performance art to rectify subject/object inequalities for female subjects. I will then turn to two feminist “performances”— Mary Richardson’s 1914 protest slashing of the...
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Marion Froger, David F. Bell
Issue 160
...can provoke. The “vital affects” (Stern)6565“On ne peut parler d’affect ou de niveau d’activation comme on parlerait d’éléments statiques. Il faut tenir compte de la courbe exprimant son déroulement dans...
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Eric Hayot
Issue 160
...immense comfort, confronts the (equally understandable) demand to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the building of factories, and the like. We’ve had our development, the West says. But you...
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Roland Racevkis
Issue 107
...they were initially intended as performances, also constitute texts that stand as their indiscernible doubles. The textual counterpart to performance proves more complex and, for Braider, essentially more significant in...
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Thangam Ravindranathan
Issue 157
...underpinning many of the spaces and experiences that Perec inventories. For these are sites of the management of species-life, sites that implement or express a modern logic of rationalization known...
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Susan Cahill, Emma Hegarty, Emilie Morin
Issue 116
Current headlines demonstrate that our widespread search for abundance has become a source of general concern. The press now abounds in debates about waste management, patterns of consumption and production,...
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Vesna Kuiken
Issue 166
For three days in early August 2023, wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island of Maui. Wind-driven and sparked by excessive anthropogenic drought, decades-long water mismanagement and tampering with indigenous vegetation,...
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Francois Ost, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 109
...system of “normative management” whose exact formulas are known to lawyers alone, and that any intrusion into this so-called “positive” field of the law by lay persons is nothing but...
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Clark D. Lunberry
Issue 110
...fit specific programs, or to accommodate the pleas of musicians, but the composition in all its intended dimension had not been heard. Like a well-concealed object, the complete string quartet’s...
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Monique Tschofen
At Play
...cinematically haunted digital poem that mashes up the work of Carolee Schneeman, the 1970s feminist performance artist who famously pulled a scroll out of her vagina, with the works of...
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Frédérique Berthet
Issue 160
...exhaling and inhaling is learned for life—je t’aime comme je respire, elle parle comme elle respire, il ment comme il respire6767Translator’s note: these three expressions use breathing in ways that...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Gwenola Wagon
Issue 160
To view Virusland, please visit: .com/547675919. Password: virusland. To view the entire Virusland 2020 project, visit www.virusland.org. Science fiction in found footage. This is not the future. You could buy...
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Églantine Colon
Issue 160
...regular basis, falling in and out of love with the same wrong comrades, over and over again, and always out of sync. The loving gestures we composed were barely legible...
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Steven Connor
Issue 160
...Shorter Prose 1945-1980, John Calder, 1984). Connor, Steven. “Choralities.” Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 3-23. —. “Ludicrous Inbodiment.” StevenConnor.com, Steven Connor, 2017, .com/inbodiment.html Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden: A...
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Danièle Meaux
Issue 88
...dont la photographie constitute le repoussoir. Comme le montre Charles Grivel dans sa préface, le daguerréotype apparaît comme le degré zéro de l’art, tel que le conçoit Töpffer; il est...
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Joachim Fiebach
Issue 98/99
Any concept of theatricality should be based upon the structural essentials of the specific cultural production of theater, in its most comprehensive sense. Theater is a type of social communication...
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John Cayley
Issue 160
...the music/poetic balance of Cage’s work and features mesostic-generating programs by Jim Rosenberg, a pioneer of language art with computation. Remarks in the discussion signal the loss, once computation is...
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Issue 160
...human subject, retain it as a referent. The Capitalocene corresponds to the Anthropocene with the added complexity of anticapitalist critique; the Plantationocene corresponds to the Anthropocene with the added complexity...
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Gaurav Majumdar
Issue 120
...even as he has been accused of an uncritical celebration of mixture. The performance and diagnosis of such transfer in The Satanic Verses combines the dynamics listed above with humor...
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Françoise Lionnet
Issue 160
...and with the community that inhabits it. Going out of the mother, I come into the air, I enter into the world, and into the community of living beings. (312)...
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Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Issue 88
Abby E. Zanger. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and Making of Absolutist Power. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 244 $45.00. The absolutism of Louis XIV...
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Steven Hartlaub
Issue 88
Saint-Amand, Pierre. The Libertine’s Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel. Trans. Jennifer Curtiss Gage. Hanover and London: Brown University Press, 1994. Pp. 166. This short, provocative, and clearly written...
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Herbert Josephs
Issue 88
Lindenberger, Herbert. Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 364. ISBN 0-8047-3104-7 (cloth). Having already examined in Opera: the “Extravagant Art” (1984)...
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The Editors of SubStance
Issue 160
...attention to the nouveau roman, structuralist narratology, and poetics. But its deepest commitment, and the one by which we, generation 2.5 of its editors, remain loyally bound, was to thought’s...