Reader on Performativity
From Cassandra Press (pdf downloads and more titles available on their website)
description from publisher:
--“Feenin” Alexander G. Weheliye
--Fred Moten, Black Mo’nin’
--Karen Barad, Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
--PETER BROOK, THE ROUGH THEATRE, fromThe Empty Space
--Producing Deviants: Black Women, Crime, and Capitalism in Reconstruction America, FemmeSurrection
--José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications, from Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
CASSANDRA is an artist run publishing and educational platform. We produce lo-fi printed matter, classrooms, projects, artist books, and exhibitions. Our intention is to spread ideas, distribute new language, propagate dialogue centering ethics, aesthetics, femme driven activism, and black scholarship.
CASSANDRA PRESS is founded by artist Kandis Williams-editor at large and co-founder Amelian Kashiro Hamilton of Sisters with Invoices. Philosopher Taylor Doran is chief curator of the Artist Editions.We operate out of Los Angeles, California.