“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?”
Leckie 207
Woke has become an almost perfect …
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I’m Being Cancelled! Update 8
The origins of the war on woke can be traced to the decline of political “isms” shaping political discourse, resulting in the growing popularity of rhetorical performances that draw on “deeper societal cultural-ideological themes” to dehistoriciz[e] naturalizations of contingent contemporary …
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 5
Love this quote from Guillermo Gomez Pena:
…Do performance artists have a job? Our job may be to open up a utopian/dystopian space, a demilitarised zone in which radical behaviour and progressive thought are allowed to the place event if
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 4
I’ve been working with the Live Art Archive in Bristol this week. I’m sat in the reading room now, writing this, sitting with the many possible directions this research could go in. Each scribbled note is an immanence of other …
I’m being cancelled! Update 3
Came across this article about the cancellation of the comedian Jerry Sadowitz’s show at the Fringe. (This was a real cancellation as opposed to a tweet storm or protest).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/16/jerry-sadowitz-cancelled-show-comedy-free-speech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
As ever, language is the fault line: What words are …