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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Artist/Author: Mel Y. Chen | Reference: P3760 | ISBN: 978-0822352723 | Type: Publication

Draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives.

The Big Con

Artist/Author: David Maurer | Reference: P3682 | ISBN: 978-0099409991 | Type: Publication

A professor of linguistics who specialised in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers. They let him in on not simply their language, but their folkwrys and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty were 'taken off' – i. e. , cheated – of thousands upon thousands of dollars.

On Performance and Performativity

Artist/Author: Catherine Elwes | Reference: A0202 | Type: Article

In what ways does the experience of live art counter the ideological readings of place, context and significantly, gendered codification?

Found in miscellaneous article folder #5
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

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