Acknowledgments
Orientations
Preface to 25th Anniversary Edition Jon McKenzie
A User’s Guide to Perform or Else Tim Edkins
The Making of Perform or Else Tim Edkins and Jon McKenzie
Introduction
Introduction: Challenges
PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS
1. The Efficacy of Cultural Performance
2. The Efficiency of Organizational Performance
3. The Effectiveness of Technological Performance
PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE
4. Challenger Lecture Machine
5. Challenging Forth: The Power of Performance
6. Professor Challenger and the Performance Stratum
PART III. PERFUMANCE
7. Professor Challenger and the Disintegration Machine
8. The Catachristening of HMS Challenger
9. Professor Rutherford and Gay Sci Fi
10. Jane Challenger, Disastronaut
11. Sequel: The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3dj3r
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jon McKenzie is Professor of Practice at Cornell University, USA, and Director of StudioLab. StudioLab collaborates with community organizations, non-profit and non-governmental organizations in both the US and abroad. Jon is also Faculty Affiliate with the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.
Timothy Edkins is a Senior Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) in Politics and International Politics in the Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He completed his PhD at Queen Mary’s Department of Drama, with secondary supervision in the School of Business and Management.
‘The most important book ever written on performance.’
- Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, USA
‘Is this edition more extravagant than the original one? More appropriate? More disturbing? What is it that makes it so timely? Perhaps we now live in a world that was strangely and unintendedly modeled after Perform or Else. If you haven’t read it, you’re wrong.’
- Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines de Paris, France
‘Read it, or else.’- Joseph Roach, Yale University, USA
