I’ve spent most of today reading How Woke Won by Joanna Williams. Williams is a core member of the RCP/Spiked! crew that have done a lot to push the war on woke into public consciousness. I’m starting to think my …
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Research on free speech and live art
I’m spending the summer researching theories of performativity and theatricality in politics to think about how the ‘war on woke’ is a way of performing an ideology of reactionary liberalism. I want to understand how concepts of ‘free speech’ are …
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. …
New book chapter published
My chapter ‘Hacking the archives: the 2012 Olympic legacy, fun palaces and game theatre’ will appear in this new volume about the director, actor and teacher Clive Barker in March 2022. The chapter looks at Barker’s legacy in the context …
New article in Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
The pandemic is creating the conditions for a new telos of globalisation to emerge in humanity’s historical consciousness, which is not expressed in ideological terms, but is instead rendered as a fluid reality of corporeality and virtuality structured by the …