Schaag, Katrina (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Biological Plasticity and Performative Possibility Recent developments in neuroscience carry revolutionary implications for our understanding of subjectivity, confirming and nuancing postmodern theories of being as a continuous process of becoming, the self as always-already in flux.  In Plasticity at the … Lire la suite

Mitrovic, Dijana (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Centered in a Void: Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present Seemingly simple in its conception, Marina Abramović’s 2010 performance piece The Artist Is Present confronts one with radical uncertainty in deciding how to interpret a piece that ostensibly refuses to … Lire la suite