Nicholas Fesette
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Fesette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fesette |
| SIGNATURE | FESETTE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, GA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Decarcerating the University
Abolitionist Laughter
In Atlanta, South River (Weelaunee) Forest is the proposed home of the $90 million Public Safety Training Center, also known as "Cop City." On June 5, 2023, when the Atlanta City Council opened the floor for public comment on Cop City, hundreds of people voiced their opposition for nearly fifteen hours, frequently using humor as a tactic of resistance. What are the radical political potentials of laughter? Which forms of laughter support the powe…
Abolition Dramaturgies
This essay places the penal abolition movement in conversation with dramatic literature, in order to understand how dramatists engage issues of policing and systemic racism, and how abolition can be envisioned onstage. Abolition dramaturgies are divisions of space and time in which a world without policing and imprisonment can be envisioned, practiced, experimented, innovated, sounded, felt, spread, and collectivized. Despite this revolutionary p…
'The great contraband a person can sneak into a prison is joy'
"'The great contraband a person can sneak into a prison is joy'." Performance Research, 26(5), pp. 170–171
Prison theatre and the right to look
The Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG) was founded in 2009 by incarcerated men at the Auburn Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. This article explores PPTG’s work using Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) theory of the ‘right to look’ in order to understand how prison theatre functions within and against the visual regime of carcerality. This article describes how PPTG employs non-traditional performance perspectives drawn from rasaesthetics to v…
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'The great contraband a person can sneak into a prison is joy'
"'The great contraband a person can sneak into a prison is joy'." Performance Research, 26(5), pp. 170–171
Prison theatre and the right to look
The Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG) was founded in 2009 by incarcerated men at the Auburn Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. This article explores PPTG’s work using Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) theory of the ‘right to look’ in order to understand how prison theatre functions within and against the visual regime of carcerality. This article describes how PPTG employs non-traditional performance perspectives drawn from rasaesthetics to v…
Abolition Dramaturgies
This essay places the penal abolition movement in conversation with dramatic literature, in order to understand how dramatists engage issues of policing and systemic racism, and how abolition can be envisioned onstage. Abolition dramaturgies are divisions of space and time in which a world without policing and imprisonment can be envisioned, practiced, experimented, innovated, sounded, felt, spread, and collectivized. Despite this revolutionary p…
Decarcerating the University
Abolitionist Laughter
In Atlanta, South River (Weelaunee) Forest is the proposed home of the $90 million Public Safety Training Center, also known as "Cop City." On June 5, 2023, when the Atlanta City Council opened the floor for public comment on Cop City, hundreds of people voiced their opposition for nearly fifteen hours, frequently using humor as a tactic of resistance. What are the radical political potentials of laughter? Which forms of laughter support the powe…
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · Order (exchange (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)