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Black Performance Theory
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
We are the Market!: The Commercial City Centre as the Final Commonplace
Calls out to freedom in the capitalist commons, within the cultural production of the high street.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism.
Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom
Ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Xenofeminism
Develops a three–part definition of xenofeminism grounded in the ideas of technomaterialism, anti–naturalism, and gender abolitionism.
Futures of Black Radicalism
Key intellectuals—inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson—recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires.
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
An exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society.
Performing Labour’s (Non)Futures Universal basic income and the monetary imagination
The universal basic income idea is, overall, profoundly performative, in that it attempts to model the ultimate pragmatism of wider social nets of generosity, and does so by representing the embodied conditions that might be brought into being by such generosity. In this way, the utopian heuristic of an unconditional, guaranteed income is said to be an ‘instrument of freedom’ and a ‘device for economic sanity’. The question is though, as is often the case: freedom and sanity for whom?
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive – and can the police deliver justice?
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fuelling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion.
