Exploring the multifaceted concept of performance, this book connects various domains including experimental art, workplace productivity, and technological functionality. It delves into how these seemingly disparate fields intersect and influence one another in the context of the new century, prompting readers to reconsider the implications and meanings of performance in contemporary society.
A StudioLab Manifesto
Focusing on the renewal of liberal arts education, this book introduces a pedagogy that merges critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking through the StudioLab approach. It aims to democratize digital culture practices akin to the democratization of literacy in the 19th century. By promoting transmedia knowledge across various formats, it encourages students to engage in diverse activities. Additionally, the author examines Plato's influence and advocates for community engagement as a means of fostering collective thought and action in higher education.
In Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, attorney and political science scholar Evan McKenzie explores emerging trends in private governments and competing schools of thought on how to operate them, from state oversight to laissez-faire libertarianism. The most common analyses see CIDs from a neoclassical economic, positive point of view. HoAs, this strain of analysis maintains, are more efficient and frugal than municipalities. And what could be more democratic than government of the neighbors, by the neighbors? But scholars coming from institutional analysis, communitarianism, and critical urban theory frameworks see possible repercussions. These include a development's failure leaving residents on the hook for crippling sums, capture or extension of the local state, and convergence of public and private local governments