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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories.
Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad, or Plain Ugly?
The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
On Repetition: Writing, Performance and Art
The collection explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity, and fear proposing a new vocabulary for understanding what is at stake in works that repeat.
Death Travels Backwards
Delivers an important overview of the artist’s pursuit of the hidden secrets and spectral enigmas found within the everyday.
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.
Jack Smith’s Rehearsals for the Destruction of Atlantis: ‘Exotic’ Ritual and Apocalyptic Tone
Engaging a series of critical models, this article examines the place of the ‘exotic’ in thinking about sexual and racial difference, as a means of thinking difficult or volatile modes of cultural practice. As such, it stages a confrontation between ‘exotic ritual’ and ‘apocalyptic tone’, to challenge conventions about scholarly practice and find new ways of examining uncomfortable spaces and modes of working.
