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Joseph Dunne-Howrie

Theatre and Performance Academic

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  • I’m Being Cancelled! Update 1August 9, 2022
  • Research on free speech and live artAugust 4, 2022
  • Gaming Democracy WebinarsApril 6, 2022
  • New book chapter publishedJanuary 4, 2022
  • New article in Journal of Performance Arts and Digital MediaDecember 23, 2021

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I’m Being Cancelled! Update 1

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 …

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022Categories Blog, PublicationsTags Academia, Archives, free speech, Higher Education, Research, Theatre

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 …

Posted on August 4, 2022Categories ReflectionsTags Academia, Archives, Decolonising, free speech, Higher Education

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

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 …

Posted on January 4, 2022January 4, 2022Categories Blog, Publications

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 …

Posted on December 23, 2021December 23, 2021Categories PublicationsTags Covid-19, Digital, Internet Theatre

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