Leon J. Hilton’s Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (Minnesota UP, 2025) is a book that does what it says. In a vital contribution to the field of performance studies, Hilton’s methodology models performative writing, evading the often drawn … Continue reading “On Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance“
Under Review: Marc Abélès, The Politics of Survival (Duke University Press, 2010) Kolya Abramsky, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World(AK Press, 2010) Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times (Verso, 2010) Writing about Hollywood disaster … Continue reading “Insecure Times”
Reviewed: Tim Lawrence, Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009). David Suisman, Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). I began reading these two … Continue reading “Listening at the End of the Twentieth Century”
