Nonconforming Criticism: Political Practices and Poetics at the Borderlands of Performance (Thinking Through Theatre)

Published Open Access, Nonconforming Criticism examines forms of thinking at the borderlands of performance that defy, dispute and resist the category of criticism.Against the backdrop of forms of governance and regulation of thought under late liberalism, this book looks to those who refuse to reproduce colonial logics in criticism by investing in unruly experiments in thinking from, and through, performance.Focusing on the period between the early noughties and early twenty-twenties, the book analyses critical practices such as live writing, artist-led publications, zines, gatherings and experiments with video, sound and publishing from cultural workers and thinkers migrating across borders, knowledges and contexts.These practices are often peripheralized from established forms of criticism, yet they shape criticality as a form of political imagination. Unpacking the logics that shape professionalised criticism, and in dialogue with decolonial, abolitionist and feminist theorisations