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Archive Fever
Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.
Countersexual Manifesto
Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.
SCUM Manifesto
Considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968, Solanas’ text is reconsidered in Avital Ronell’s introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas”.
Animals
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
Dust
Drawing on over five years worth of her own published and unpublished writing, the author has produced a sustained argument about the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world.
Inter Views in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and Conversations
Offers a glimpse of new perspectives on how philosophy performs in the gaps between thinking and acting.
The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard
Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Mirror/Water: Reflections on Stasis and Liquidity in Performance
MA Performance Thesis, 2016.
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.
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics
A feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Theatre and Animals
This text addresses demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre’s capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expose theatre’s negotiations with wider ethical, social and economic questions.
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Cruising Utopia considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.
