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Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance - Hardcover

McKenzie, Jon

 
9780415247689: Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415247683 ISBN 13: 9780415247689
Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

'Performance' has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by 'performance'? 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 cultural, organisational, and technological performance. In this theoretical tour de force McKenzie demonstrates that all three paradigms operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures to 'perform...or else'. This is an urgent and important intervention in contemporary critical thinking. It will profoundly shape our understanding of twenty-first century structures of power and knowledge.

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About the Author

Jon 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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415247683
ISBN 13 
9780415247689
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320