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Book SynopsisPlacing the disciplines of performance studies and surveillance studies in a timely critical dialogue,
Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance not only theorizes how surveillance performs, but also how the technologies and corresponding cultures of surveillance alter the performance of everyday life.
Trade ReviewHarding moves fluidly between the sociological, political, statistical, economic, and aesthetic considerations of the impacts of surveillance on contemporary life. His book contributes a cautionary analysis of contemporary surveillance society that is grounded in performance and activist histories from the 20th-century avant-garde and pitched toward the need for radical activist performance in the 21st century. The final chapter in particular is an unequivocal call to arms, a stirring appeal for radical action in the face of alarming imbalances of power at local, national, and international levels."" - Elise Morrison, Yale University
