Latest Comments

• Massumi on Affect

  Sat Mar 1, 2008
  • Andrew, I skimmed this article but will definitely come back to it soon. There’s stuff towards the bottom about Nietzsche and gaiety that I’m sure will send me off again. Thanks.

• Performance in Lynching and Cultural Counter Memories

  Mon Jan 28, 2008
  • I’d like to add something else to this conversation that I didn’t say in class during our ethics discussion. As I mentioned above, I saw “Without Sanctuary” in Pittsburgh at the Warhol Museum.

• Terror Jokes: Are they ethical?

  Wed Feb 27, 2008
  • Hi Kara, Sorry for the delay in answering. The answer is yes. I included that clip because of how it links comedy with tragedy. Chaplin’s all about making the audience laugh. And in that scene he gets laughs for playing a character who almost gets seriously hurt.

• Terror Jokes: Are they ethical?

  Wed Feb 27, 2008
  • Oscar Wilde’s last remark on his deathbed is said to have been the following: “Either those curtains go or I do.”

• Writing Performing/A Performative Text

  Thu Feb 21, 2008
  • So when it’s time to post, Newsvine asks: news, other? I had to pick “other” the first time.

• Performance in Lynching and Cultural Counter Memories

  Mon Jan 28, 2008
  • In response to the above reactions: I had the (mis)fortune of seeing the exhibit “Without Sanctuary” at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, post-9/11. That was when I first learned about these images, and experienced them.

• Performance in Lynching and Cultural Counter Memories

  Mon Jan 28, 2008
  • Given the response to Melissa’s posting, it’s easy to see how timely her essay is. Rather than end a conversation, her contribution this week provokes discussion.

• P&P makes new friends!

  Sun Jan 27, 2008
  • I think it’s great that a class from another university is going to participate in this group, especially a class focused on performance art. It’ll expand our discussions about performance here at P&P. And hopefully we’ll contribute to their discussions too.

• Performing Blackness: Barack Obama and limitations on performance space and spectatorship

  Tue Jan 22, 2008
  • Deborah Wong poses a question about difference, which I’ll paraphrase: When people talk about difference, can only one parameter be handled at once? In other words, if race is at issue, will it dominate all other considerations? Will it trump gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc.? Similarly, if …

• Performance and Politics: Welcome and Introductions

  Mon Jan 7, 2008
  • Ryan, thanks for your question on “Into the Wild.” It’s one of my favorite films of the year too. Part of the reason I like it is because it illustrates what it means to occupy the margins by one’s own volition.