Marvin A. Carlson: Performance: A Critical Introduction

Performance: A Critical Introduction


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This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place since the book's original publication in 1996. Marvin Carlson guides the reader through the contested definition of performance as a theatrical activity and the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists, and cultural theorists. Topics covered include: *the evolution of performance art since the 1960s *the relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and current cultural studies *the recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and technology. With a fully updated bibliography and additional glossary of terms, students of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history will welcome this new version of a classic text.

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear."On the Existence of Digital Objects" conducts a philosophical examination of digital objects and their organizing schema by creating a dialogue Performance: A Critical Introduction free download pdf between Martin Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon, which Yuk Hui contextualizes within the history of computing. How can digital objects be understood according to individualization and individuation? Hui pursues this question through the history of ontology and the study of markup languages and Web ontologies; he investigates the existential structure of digital objects within their systems and milieux. With this relational approach toward digital objects and technical systems, the book addresses alienation, described by Simondon as the consequence of mistakenly viewing technics in opposition to culture.Interdisciplinary in philosophical and technical insights, with close readings of Husserl, Heidegger, and Simondon as well as the history of computing and the Web, Hui s work develops an original, productive way of thinking about the data and metadata that increasingly define our world.


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Author: Marvin A. Carlson
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 01 Dec 2003
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780415299275
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