PerformOrElse

Perform or else

Performance will be to the 20th and 21st century what disicpline was for 18th and 19th century Performance in technology, workspace and culture somehow relate @intro

Angela Davis said in 1955 that postindustrial societies are ruled by "the performance principle" @p3

An issue of "the Forbes" about performance in industry was cause of the sacking of high level business men, performance is a strong imperative @p5 And Forbes also looked at non-profits like education!

High performance equals bonus while low performance equals out-sourcing, insecurity or sacking @p6

Performance comes with a different style of management. No longer Taylorist control like structures. @p6 Performance economy is service-based, global and electronic

The new management style has been compared to art practice in both music and fine art. Giving responsibility to the worker is part of the process. A downside for the worker is that he/she is confronted with flextiming, outsourcing, downsizing etc. @p7 This is increasingly happening as organized workers become rare

cultural performance

Performance as a medium that caries human behaviour, not only show and entertainment, but a broader notion @p8 Societies get quantified by their rituals Communication studies look at the conflict side of things Theorists look at the everyday performance of sex etc. Theatre as a means to get to another point ....

The theatre games give space to exploration and being different. Perform or else can be red as: perform or else ... be socially normified @p9

technological performance

Not a lot of theory about this. It's clearly important especially with computers who help to design performance themselves @p11

The military industrial complex is mentioned here, but academics are also part of the equation ...

The sentence becomes: perform or else you're outmoded, a dummy This was holding true for arms race in the cold war, but it is still true today @p12||13

the performativity of knowledge

There are also philisophical, medical and economic notions of performance, but they are largely ignored in the book @p13

Knowledge itself of over the last six decades may be characterized as having been performantized @p14 Because there are no big stories anymore the stories, the things that survive are the things that perform

The performativity of power

Knowlegde is power increasingly became to mean, that information gives access to production @p15 One can say according to Lyotard "who decides what knowledge is and who knows what needs to be decided?" as being the questions that involve power and knowledge.

Marcuse claims that post-industrial society is a society where people perform against each other, but they do did not for their own interest. However they do find pleasure in that. @p16

Some important scholars don't get cited, because this may go against performance (conspiracy?)@p16 Institutions get run in such a way that these works get forgotten. The question becomes: "who decides what is performance and who is going to perform?"

Discipline and perform

Foucault stated that discipline and law were normalizing forces in our society @p18

"performance will be to the 20th and 21st century what discipline was to the 18th and 19th, that is, an onto-historical formation of power and knowledge" @p18

Performance as an overal criterium, where the demands are very fluid and constantly changing, but with similar results as discipline had @p19

performances, performatives and the lecture machine

A part that I don't get ..... Very theorizing! @p20

Institutions also have platforms onto which they perform. This goes all the way into desktops. @p22