Jon McKenzie

Perform or Else

From Discipline to Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

'Performance' has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by 'performance'? In today's world it can refer to experimental art; productivity in the workplace; and the functionality of technological systems. Do these disparate fields bear any relation to each other?
In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie asserts that there is a relationship cultural, organisational, and technological performance. In this theoretical tour de force McKenzie demonstrates that all three paradigms operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures to 'perform...or else'. This is an urgent and important intervention in contemporary critical thinking. It will profoundly shape our understanding of twenty-first century structures of power and knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9780415247696
• ISBN-10: 0415247691
• Artikelnr.: 21828842

Autorenporträt

Jon McKenzie is Visiting Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where he teaches courses on globalization, experience design, and organizational performance. He also consults as a strategist in the new media industry. His essays include Laurie Anderson for Dummies and Towards a Sociopoetics of Interface Design: etoy, eToys, TOYWAR.

Inhaltsangabe

ILLUSTRATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION, PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS, PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE, PART III. PERFUMANCE, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

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ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS
PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE
PART III. PERFUMANCE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Rezensionen

'All very fascinating and challenging.' - Modernism/Modernity

'All very fascinating and challenging.' - Modernism/Modernity