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Joseph Dunne-Howrie

Theatre and Performance Academic

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  • Gaming Democracy WebinarsApril 6, 2022
  • New book chapter publishedJanuary 4, 2022
  • New article in Journal of Performance Arts and Digital MediaDecember 23, 2021
  • New Article in Studies in Theatre and PerformanceSeptember 22, 2021
  • Thoughts on Decolonising the CurriculumMarch 25, 2021

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Gaming Democracy Webinars

I’m starting a new project with Tom Drayton at UEL. Gaming Democracy: Participatory Performance Strategies for Countering Far-Right Politics is investigating how online communities and ‘game-play’ processes are weaponised by fascist and white supremacists groups to radicalise, recruit and terrorise. …

Posted on April 6, 2022Categories Blog, EventsTags Conspiracy Theory, Digital, Far right, Gaming Democracy, Post-truth, racism, Research, Theatre

Thoughts on Decolonising the Curriculum

I’d been reading around ideas apropos decolonising the curriculum for a little while, but Black Lives Matter made me sit up and pay attention and compelled me to engage with the movement with a greater level of rigour .I first …

Posted on March 25, 2021December 23, 2021Categories ReflectionsTags Decolonising, Higher Education, racism, Teaching, Theatre, Wooster Group

The Internet as a Performance Medium

‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’

(Groys 2018, p.174)

Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March …

Posted on December 9, 2020December 9, 2020Categories BlogTags Digital, Internet Theatre, Lockdown, Theatre

To Be A Machine by Dead Centre

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial …

Posted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020Categories BlogTags Digital, DocPerform, Dystopia, Internet Theatre, Lockdown, Theatre

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove

We mustn’t be victims, but protagonists of our own story

I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian …

Posted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020Categories BlogTags Academia, Higher Education, racism, Small Axe, Theatre

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