The End of Theatre Groups?
TDR’s (delayed) Fall 2024 issue (67, 3) features a retrospective on SITI Company, which began in 1992 and disbanded in 2022.…
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Still Exhausted
As 2024 begins, AI feels simultaneously inescapable and invisible. Newspaper editorials, Davos panels, and countless advertisements tout the epochal event that is “AI.”…
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What Does Performance Theory Take from Sociology?
We usually narrate the origin of performance studies by foregrounding idiosyncratic mid-20th-century thinkers—Erving Goffman, Kenneth Burke, and J.L. Austin, among others—who in different ways refurbished the old idea of the theatrum mundi.…
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What Is at Stake?
A colleague asked me this question last week. I wonder… What is a new way to state what’s at stake? That our future will be more and more challenging?…
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The Co-presence of Absence and Presence
“Your authors are a microcosm of the state of the world,” Mariellen Sandford wrote me, when I told her of the challenges we faced completing our issue.…
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Forthcoming: Addressing Ongoing Threats
In our next issue, TDR is publishing two significant essays in the TDR Comments section of the journal: “A Letter from Moscow” by a scholar who lives there; and Richard Schechner’s “Postpone the Great Game.”…
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The Loss of Fear as Civic Performance
Antiwar activists carve “no to war” in frozen rivers, spray-paint slogans of peace in the snow. They scrawl on banknotes, putting their opposition into circulation. Despite the looming threat of 15-year prison sentences, artists and activists in Russia continue to protest Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Stealth Intelligence
We live in an era of absence. Lockdowns, quarantines, hospitals, and face masks: fear of contamination disappears the body from public space and discourse.…
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Peripeteia and Its Aftermaths
For years now, climate activists have been warning world leaders and everyone who cared to listen that the planet is approaching the tipping point of global warming.…
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Showing up to Improvisation
Emerging to sociality during a pandemic has felt like a process of improvisation—making gestures toward imagining oneself in relation to others, to past selves, and to future possibilities.…
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The Theatre of Purgation and the Theatre of Cultivation
Since the mid-19th century, Western drama has spread to most parts of the non-Western world. In some places it has gradually replaced the indigenous theatre; in others such as China, it has coexisted with the traditional theatre.…
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A Fall That Keeps on Falling
When writing about the uncertain future of contact improvisation during the summer and fall of 2020, in the wake of Nancy Stark Smith’s passing, I noted that one of her most significant contributions to understandings of CI was her theory of “the gap.”…
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On Collaborative Research and Writing
On 28 April 2013, ninety-five years after Finland’s civil war (27 January–15 May 1918), artist Kaisa Salmi created a performance called Fellman Field: A Living Monument to 22,000 People.…
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Announcement: New co-editor for Twentieth-Century Music
Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Alejandro L. Madrid as co-editor of Twentieth-Century Music, joining co-editor Pauline Fairclough from January 2019.…
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How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Lectures on Theoretical Physics by David Tong: One Year On
One year after publication, we look back at the first titles in David Tong’s Lectures on Theoretical Physics series.
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The National Archaeology Plan and the future of Spanish archaeology
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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