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Resist Singularity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2004

Shannon Jackson
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Extract

That may sound like an evasion. If the question under discussion is asking for a single direction and a plan of action, a stand and a silver bullet, it partly is. To “resist singularity” has the ring of poststructuralist relativism, the now clichéd way by means of which many seem to have evaded action and avoided taking any kind of a stand.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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Footnotes

Shannon Jackson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her books Lines of Activity (2000) and Professing Performance (2004), she has published and performed in numerous journals, theatres, edited collections, and galleries.