PMA 6610

Theorizing Media and Performance

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This graduate seminar takes a global approach to understanding the influential ways in which live and mediated performances have been theorized. Focusing on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts, we will explore the ways in which different aestheticians, historians, activists, and other philosophically motivated thinkers have conceived such phenomena as kinesthetic performance, embodied spectatorship, (mnemo)technics, spectacularity, liveness, identification, and ludic play. Close analyses of a variety of art objects will complement our intensive readings of dense theoretical texts.

When Offered Spring.

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