TODAY'S INTERESTS

The Theatre Thing.

I had a theatre thing once, and I joined the Department of Performance Studies at New York University thinking I would continue working in that vein. I was wrong, but that's: okay. I've spent my remaining time trying to think of other ways to justify being in a place called Performance Studies.

For a few years now I've been particularly interested in the intersections between two specific types of performance: high performance computing (a way to describe the dyamic of packet switching on the Internet) and "gender performatvity" (a way to describe, well, gender.) Here's a riff if what I just said makes no sense.

OTHER INTERESTS (Links coming soon, I swear.)

Race and class in cyberspace

Internet history

Telecommunications theory

Webcasting in its all forms

Postcolonial literatures and globalization

Third wave feminist theory and practice

Asian "girl culture" (especially online)

Contemporary body art performance

Theories of the avant-garde

Classical aesthetic philosophies

Here are a random list of interests, culled from my Live Journal:

alvin lucier, ana voog, aristotle, artaud, artificial intelligence, autobiography, belgium, bell hooks, billie holiday, brecht,brussels, camgirls, carpentry, danny hillis, descartes, donna haraway, dykes, feminist theory, flannery o'connor, gayatri spivak, gilles deleuze, globalization, gospel music, guy debord, hip hop, house painting, internet history, jacques derrida, jacques lacan, jessica benjamin, joko beck, journalism, judith butler, kant, king pleasure, linda williams, luce irigaray, madonna, marcel duchamp, michelle wallace, mimesis, missy elliott, monkeys, nantucket, net art, parallel computing, patricia williams, peggy phelan, performance, philosophy, phone sex, plato, pop culture, pornography, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, reality television, red wine, reza abdoh, riot grrls, running, sandy stone, sex work, sherry turkle, sigmund freud, sound art, sxsw, t.d. suzuki, teaching, technoculture, teledildonics, teresa delauretis, the uncanny, theories of the sublime, thich nhat hanh, transgender theory, transexuals, virtual community, webcams, xmen, zines