Perform Or Else: From Discipline To Performance
by Jon McKenzie /
2001 / English / PDF
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'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?
'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
InPerform or Else
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.
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.
