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Overview"""Performance"" has become one of the key terms for the 21st century, but what do we mean by it? 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 between cultural, organizational and technological performance. He demonstrates that all three operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures to ""perform...or else""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jon McKenziePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780415247696ISBN 10: 0415247691 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 22 March 2001 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION, PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS, PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE, PART III. PERFUMANCE, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEXReviewsOverall, I find McKenzie's fluid essaying and profuse theorizing exhilarating. Alternately serious and ludic, vigorously interpretive and rewardingly idiosyncratic, this book is best read in the spirit in which it was written: as performance.. <br>- Theatre Journal, Arthur Sabatini, Arizona State University <br> In high-spirited prose that careens through both predictable and idiosyncratically selected texts and examples, McKenzie makes the case for rethinking performance as a concept and theory applicable far beyond theatre, performance, and cultural studies.. <br>- Theatre Journal, Arthur Sabatini, Arizona State University <br>... incredibly smart, provocative, and important.. <br>-Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Irvine <br> Wholly original. Extremely valuable. A truly remarkable book.. <br>-Philip Auslander, author of Liveness <br> This tour de force introduces 'performance' as a new practice giving access to a secret network connecting 'performance' in all its uses across the divisions of knowledge. The liminal hinge of this newtork is 'the Challenger Lecture Machine, ' to whose seven Challengers may be added this eighth wonder of the performance world.. <br>-Gregory L. Ulmer, Professor of English, University of Florida <br> Overall, I find McKenzie's fluid essaying and profuse theorizing exhilarating. Alternately serious and ludic, vigorously interpretive and rewardingly idiosyncratic, this book is best read in the spirit in which it was written: as performance.. - Theatre Journal, Arthur Sabatini, Arizona State University In high-spirited prose that careens through both predictable and idiosyncratically selected texts and examples, McKenzie makes the case for rethinking performance as a concept and theory applicable far beyond theatre, performance, and cultural studies.. - Theatre Journal, Arthur Sabatini, Arizona State University ... incredibly smart, provocative, and important.. -Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Irvine Wholly original. Extremely valuable. A truly remarkable book.. -Philip Auslander, author of Liveness This tour de force introduces 'performance' as a new practice giving access to a secret network connecting 'performance' in all its uses across the divisions of knowledge. The liminal hinge of this newtork is 'the Challenger Lecture Machine, ' to whose seven Challengers may be added this eighth wonder of the performance world.. -Gregory L. Ulmer, Professor of English, University of Florida Author InformationJon 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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