#social performance

[altered0]

something that i feel like is underdiscussed (i say this because i tried to look things up about it and really could not find many results, and because nobody around me seems to talk about it very often) is how so many things are associated with more feminine undertones. not sure if this is just me, but was thinking about how things like:

reading lots of books

enjoying the outdoors

enjoying studying

being conscious of how one dresses

doing any sorts of drawing, writing, crafts, etc.

they really just feel like they carry such a strong feminine undertone to them. i've just been wondering how this bias may be influencing anybody toward or away from doing these activities, even if there is much a biological basis for enjoying certain things or if it's mostly a social performance aspect, if that makes sense

[cognizantluxation]

[thejuandiaries]

who are you after you close your smartphone?

[vnavarrowriter]

In a sense, every type of cultural performance, including ritual, ceremony, carnival, theatre, and poetry, is explanation and explication if life itself, as Dilthy often argued. Through the performance process itself, what if normally sealed up, inaccessible to everyday forth--Dilthey uses the term Ausdruck, "an expression," from ausdrucken, literally "to press or squeeze out. 'Meaning' is squeezed out of an event, which has either been directly experienced by the dramatist or poet or cries out for penetrative, imaginative understanding (Verstehen). An experience is itself a process, which 'presses out' to an 'expression' which completes it.

Victor Turner, from Ritual to Theatre (1982), qtd. in D. Soyini Madison (2005), Critical Ethnography: Methods, Ethics, and Performance. Sage Publications, p. 150-151.

[socialperformance]

Poll for February (We’re Back!)

Social Performance is back and raring to go! We’ve set up a poll for you to vote on the play you want to read first (in February). We have a mix of more contemporary plays, and some older stuff, some tragedies and some comedies, so hopefully there’s something for everyone in the mix!

https://vote.pollcode.com/52623913

[socialperformance]

We’re alive!

The mods from @socialshakespeare have only gone and revived Social Performance! We’ll be posting information about the first play of the revival very soon. In the meantime, spread the word! If you have any suggestions of plays you’d like to see (literally ANYTHING, as long as it’s not Shakespeare), send us an ask or a message! 

[idleghosts]

Authenticity and Its Imitators

Why Some Feel Warm While Others Only Appear So