Bøger i Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative serien

How the human body is involved in the creation and illustration of ideas.

Examines the ways that gay men have used theatre and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. This book argues that the history of AIDS performance is located at the juncture of memory and disappearance, of mourning and survival, of representation and its impossibility in the context of epidemic loss.

Dealing with the decomposition of cultural myths, these essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics.

Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory.

Engages in an interdisciplinary investigation of the political technologies of the body in the wake of postmodernity, technologies apparent in film, medicine, entertainment industries, politics, and the arts. This book reflects the growing concern with interfaces between humans and computer and bio-medical technologies.