Perform Or Else - From Discipline to Performance

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie brilliantly explores the relationship between cultural, organisational, and technological performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis ILLUSTRATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION, PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS, PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE, PART III. PERFUMANCE, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Jon McKenzie, Jon (University of the Arts Mckenzie, McKenzie Jon, MCKENZIE JON UNIVERSITY OF ARTS
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2001
• EAN: 9780415247689
• ISBN: 978-0-415-24768-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, Anthropology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Social groups, Theatre Studies, The arts: general topics, Social groups, communities and identities