Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance

ISBN-13: 9780415247696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str.

Jon McKenzie

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'All very fascinating and challenging.' - Modernism/Modernity

Spis treści

ILLUSTRATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION, PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS, PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE, PART III. PERFUMANCE, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

O autorze

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.