Review of Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times

What is it about?

This review argues that the book both exposes the enormous violence perpetrated by neoliberalism and shows the wide-ranging and globally-dispersed feminist performance responses to that violence, especially responses that engage with and provoke feelings.

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Photo by Drop the Label Movement on Unsplash

Photo by Drop the Label Movement on Unsplash

Why is it important?

My review summarises some of the book's most important conclusions related to the idea of dispersal: neoliberalism’s violence operates through means often implicit, dispersed, and difficult to attack; and neoliberalism’s means of dispersal are often internalized, made part of the biopolitical sphere, so that many of us are complicit with it, even when we don’t want to be. It also offers an overview of the feminist performance strategies the book identifies as responses to this dispersal.

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