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Nonconforming Criticism: Political Practices and Poetics at the Borderlands of Performance

Nonconforming Criticism: Political Practices and Poetics at the Borderlands of Performance

Martin, Diana Damian
Bleeker, Maaike
Kear, Adrian

Hardcover

Series: Thinking Through Theatre

Theater History

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 17, 2026

ISBN10: 1350178594
ISBN13: 9781350178595
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Published Open Access, Nonconforming Criticism examines forms of thinking at the borderlands of performance that defy, dispute and resist the category of criticism.

Against the backdrop of forms of governance and regulation of thought under late liberalism, this book looks to those who refuse to reproduce colonial logics in criticism by investing in unruly experiments in thinking from, and through, performance. Focusing on the period between the early noughties and early twenty-twenties, the book analyses critical practices such as live writing, artist-led publications, zines, gatherings and experiments with video, sound and publishing from cultural workers and thinkers migrating across borders, knowledges and contexts. These practices are often peripheralized from established forms of criticism, yet they shape criticality as a form of political imagination.

Unpacking the logics that shape professionalised criticism, and in dialogue with decolonial, abolitionist and feminist theorisations of politics and knowledge, the book focuses on nonconforming criticism as a practice of unlearning. Structured into three parts, the book constitutes a partial lexicon of Borders, Experiments and Practices. It moves through forms of thinking-in-public that reconfigure relations of sensing and meaning between criticism, performance and political life, against the imperial and separatist logics of criticism and its entanglements.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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