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• Massumi on Affect

  Sat Mar 1, 2008
  • Thanks Andrew.....this is a great article, though a little too late for my paper, I will keep if for future reference. It's nice to have Massumi's ideas about affect condenced like this.....happy blizzard, KDH

• Writing Performing/A Performative Text

  Thu Feb 21, 2008
  • You say: Create a performative text. This has proved difficult for some and not for others.

• Medical imaging and trauma narratives: The Performance of Illness

  Fri Feb 8, 2008
  • Hi Doug,

• Performing Possibilities: Dreaming as Performance on the Psychic Scale

  Sat Feb 2, 2008
  • First, yes, I went to sleep that night with a conflict about how to proceed with the class, this road, without understanding the language of performance theory. I wanted to post with clarity, but since I am unsure myself of the "language" it seemed impossible.

• Performance as Politics on the Newsvine Stage. . .

  Tue Jan 29, 2008
  • Dear Melissa L, and newsviners from P&P,

• Reception, Affect & Meaning in Performance Art

  Wed Jan 23, 2008
  • Hi Doug, We are a graduate level seminar at Ohio State Univeristy in the Department of Comparative Studies. Maurice Stevens is our prof. Please stay tuned for more discussion as the quarter progresses. My area of interest is death, dying, hospice caregiving. Great to hear from you.

• Reception, Affect & Meaning in Performance Art

  Wed Jan 23, 2008
  • Melissa, Your comments lead me to a further thought I had this week about reception. How do we receive performance? It seems to start in the body with seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, kinesthesis.

• Am I just uncomfortable or does the body perform learning?

  Mon Jan 14, 2008
  • Is this Rachel?