Burleson details the way she and her undergraduate narrative theory class performed a narrative analysis, along with a media and cultural studies analysis, of Lamar's half-time performance at the 59th Super Bowl.
Burleson details the way she and her undergraduate narrative theory class performed a narrative analysis, along with a media and cultural studies analysis, of Lamar's half-time performance at the 59th Super Bowl.
Exploring how Black mothers’ public grief resists anti-Black narratives, Washington Jr. proposes making a scene as an answer to Diana Taylor’s call that we “reconsider how performance studies and historical studies construct and position themselves in relation to their objects of analysis—the activated now of performance, the performed past of history.”
This essay tells a story about blackness and being, black durational performance, black power and the powers that cohere in the blackness of Now.
Seated centre-stage yet unconcerned with the anthropocentric voyeurism, self-consciousness, and self-display of traditional stage presence, the Green Man of Mesocosm dwells in a theatre of species—all species—and nonchalantly performs a scandalous form of species companionship and ecological intimacy.
“What does knowledge do?” exposes our impoverished vocabulary for discussing how what appears political inside of a particular interpretation generates political change in the broader world. What if we took these expressions literally? What if discourse is a thing whose unfoldings we can modulate both through its meanings and through its materiality? Answering these questions requires a more strenuous examination of what we mean by the material, of how meaning matters.