We are pleased to announce the latest issue of +Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies+.
<http://liminalities.net/7-4/> This issue features essays on prison rodeos, Method acting, a Hollywood childhood, punk feminism, and The Yes Men. We have the first contribution to our Digital Horizons series with a database installation, a contribution to The City series on bicycle commuting, and a book review. I edit The City series. If you are interested in submitting an article, creative project, or book review, please contact me. *************************** Table of Contents ESSAYS Discipline and the Performance of Punishment: Welcome to "The Wildest Show in the South" Mary Rachel Gould Hollywood Childhood around 1990 Scott Ferguson A Dangerous Method: the Art of Authenticity as a Social Imperative Jon Leon Torn The iPhone 4CF (Conflict Free): The Yes Men Address the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sonja Mönkedieck >From Riot Grrrl to Crimethinc: A Lineage of Expressive Negation in Feminist >Punk and Queercore Johanna Isaacson DIGITAL HORIZONS TOUCHproject [database installation] Nichole Nicholson THE CITY Cycling and the City: Reflections on Commuting Practices [ethnography, GPS records, & documentary photography] Phil Jones & Dan Burwood BOOK REVIEW +Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art+ (edited by Maria Elena Buszek) [html] reviewed by Kristen Williams **************************** +Liminalities+ is an open-access peer-reviewed journal for performance studies, theory, and praxis. Our goal is to embrace the possibilities for presenting work in performance studies (broadly construed) by exploring and exploiting the "staging" potential of digital media. We publish essays, aesthetic works, digital media projects, artist pages, perforamce scripts, themed forums, documentaries, reviews, interviews, works about performance in urban environments, and works about pedagogy & performance. Please visit the "Journal Information" page for submission instructions. <http://liminalities.net/edpolicy.htm> Take care, Daniel ________________________ Daniel Makagon, Ph.D. Associate Professor College of Communication DePaul University Office/UPS/Fedex: 14 East Jackson, 1828 USPS address: 1 East Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 [email protected] http://condor.depaul.edu/~dmakagon/
