Media & Performance: Along The Border
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the volatile intersection of technology, embodiment, and cultural politics, Johannes Birringer's Media & Performance: Along the Border presents a provocative and rigorous examination of how performance art and media culture collide, overlap, and mutually transform one another in the late twentieth century. Birringer maps a restless intellectual terrain — one defined by borders both literal and metaphorical — tracing how artists, dancers, and theorists navigate the contested zones between live performance and electronic representation, between the physical body and its mediated image. Drawing on a vast range of interdisciplinary sources, from poststructuralist theory to avant-garde theatre and digital media practice, Birringer argues that the concept of the border is not merely a geographical reality but a defining condition of contemporary artistic and cultural experience. His writing is dense with critical insight yet animated by an essayistic energy that refuses easy resolution, leaving the reader to grapple with urgent questions about identity, technology, and the future of the performing body in an increasingly screen-saturated world.
Author: Johannes Birringer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1998, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Genre: Preforming Arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the volatile intersection of technology, embodiment, and cultural politics, Johannes Birringer's Media & Performance: Along the Border presents a provocative and rigorous examination of how performance art and media culture collide, overlap, and mutually transform one another in the late twentieth century. Birringer maps a restless intellectual terrain — one defined by borders both literal and metaphorical — tracing how artists, dancers, and theorists navigate the contested zones between live performance and electronic representation, between the physical body and its mediated image. Drawing on a vast range of interdisciplinary sources, from poststructuralist theory to avant-garde theatre and digital media practice, Birringer argues that the concept of the border is not merely a geographical reality but a defining condition of contemporary artistic and cultural experience. His writing is dense with critical insight yet animated by an essayistic energy that refuses easy resolution, leaving the reader to grapple with urgent questions about identity, technology, and the future of the performing body in an increasingly screen-saturated world.