Michael Shane Boyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Shane Boyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Shane |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyle |
| SIGNATURE | BOYLE M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michael Shane Boyle is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation examines 1968 historiography and the role played by performance, violence, and critical theory in shaping the German New Left. He spent the 2010/11 academic year at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft of the Free University, Berlin on a Fulbright Research... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vanishing Acts
Despite myths of its dematerialization, capitalism continues to deepen its reliance on resource extraction. Performances by Otobong Nkanga and Seba Calfuqueo confront this trend, mapping it onto longer histories of expropriation in Namibia and Chile, respectively. By activating sculptural objects composed of mined raw materials, both artists make visible the colonial and ongoing forms of extractive violence that underpin automation and the socall…
Performance and Value
That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, even inextricably, linked; but investigating theatre as somewhere people go to work is a far different enterprise than specifying its economic connection to capital.
Container Aesthetics
Much has been written on representations of shipping containers in film and visual art. this study of shunt's The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face (2014) builds on such scholarship, but specifically responds to the emergence of container aesthetics in contemporary performance. As a recent example of artists retooling shipping containers into performance space, london-based shunt's immersive theatre tour is just one instance of an overlooked infras…
The Criminalization of Dissent
The arrest of the activist performance collective the VolxTheaterKarawane concretely reveals the discourse of criminalization state authorities used to brutally suppress dissent at the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. It is one example of the increasingly common strategy of political elites who promote the perception of political protest as a criminal act, a misapprehension that has profound consequences for the future of democracy and dissent in …
Privatize Now! Ask Questions Later
Through a discussion of selected guerilla performances, Internet pranks, and ironic manifestos created by the UC Movement for Efficient Privatization (UCMeP), this essay focuses on the ways student activists at the University of California have turned to satiric performance as a mode of critique and mobilization against the controversial budget cuts to public education in California. UCMeP's playful yet earnest performative manipulations of the d…
Container Aesthetics
Much has been written on representations of shipping containers in film and visual art. this study of shunt's The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face (2014) builds on such scholarship, but specifically responds to the emergence of container aesthetics in contemporary performance. As a recent example of artists retooling shipping containers into performance space, london-based shunt's immersive theatre tour is just one instance of an overlooked infras…
The Criminalization of Dissent
The arrest of the activist performance collective the VolxTheaterKarawane concretely reveals the discourse of criminalization state authorities used to brutally suppress dissent at the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. It is one example of the increasingly common strategy of political elites who promote the perception of political protest as a criminal act, a misapprehension that has profound consequences for the future of democracy and dissent in …
Privatize Now! Ask Questions Later
Through a discussion of selected guerilla performances, Internet pranks, and ironic manifestos created by the UC Movement for Efficient Privatization (UCMeP), this essay focuses on the ways student activists at the University of California have turned to satiric performance as a mode of critique and mobilization against the controversial budget cuts to public education in California. UCMeP's playful yet earnest performative manipulations of the d…
Container Aesthetics
Much has been written on representations of shipping containers in film and visual art. this study of shunt's The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face (2014) builds on such scholarship, but specifically responds to the emergence of container aesthetics in contemporary performance. As a recent example of artists retooling shipping containers into performance space, london-based shunt's immersive theatre tour is just one instance of an overlooked infras…
Performance and Value
That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, even inextricably, linked; but investigating theatre as somewhere people go to work is a far different enterprise than specifying its economic connection to capital.
Vanishing Acts
Despite myths of its dematerialization, capitalism continues to deepen its reliance on resource extraction. Performances by Otobong Nkanga and Seba Calfuqueo confront this trend, mapping it onto longer histories of expropriation in Namibia and Chile, respectively. By activating sculptural objects composed of mined raw materials, both artists make visible the colonial and ongoing forms of extractive violence that underpin automation and the socall…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Dissent (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Work (physics) (2 works)