Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance

McKenzie, Jon

ISBN 10: 0415247683 / ISBN 13: 9780415247689

Published by Routledge, 2001

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This text examines the meaning of the word "performance" in the 21st century. The author asserts that there is a relationship between cultural, organizational and technological performance and demonstrates that all three operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; CFG; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2001. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415247683
• ISBN 13: 9780415247689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

'Performance' has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by 'performance'? In today's world it can refer to experimental art; productivity in the workplace; and the functionality of technological systems. Do these disparate fields bear any relation to each other?
In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie asserts that there is a relationship cultural, organisational, and technological performance. In this theoretical tour de force McKenzie demonstrates that all three paradigms operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures to 'perform...or else'. This is an urgent and important intervention in contemporary critical thinking. It will profoundly shape our understanding of twenty-first century structures of power and knowledge.

About the Author

Jon McKenzie is Visiting Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where he teaches courses on globalization, experience design, and organizational performance. He also consults as a strategist in the new media industry. His essays include Laurie Anderson for Dummies and Towards a Sociopoetics of Interface Design: etoy, eToys, TOYWAR.