"Performing Consumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures" is a searching exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded super-stores. Looking at our performative desire to "try on" otherness, Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and "The Lion King; " and The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. In this post-product era, each builds for the performer/consumer an intensely pleasurable, somatic...
"Performing Consumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures" is a searching exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves in...
"Performing Consumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures" is a searching exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded super-stores. Looking at our performative desire to "try on" otherness, Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and "The Lion King; " and The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. In this post-product era, each builds for the performer/consumer an intensely pleasurable, somatic...
"Performing Consumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures" is a searching exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves in...
The Initiation of History: Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Peformance considers the three categories of time that can be thought to occur specifically in theatre and performance: inceptions, births, or initiations of human history. Each of these temporalities works against what are often thought to be theatre's prevailing temporal mechanisms.
Maurya Wickstrom grounds her analysis in the theories of three leading philosphers: Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Antonio Negri. She considers the ways in which theatre and performance responds to the questions of the new...
The Initiation of History: Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Peformance considers the three categories of time that can be thought to occur...
