Ever feel like you’re too much of a failure of a person even to begin to get a grasp on what the hell is going on? Like, who are you to even ask? This is a pretty big question when you think about it, but you can break it down a bit. One way is to think about who you are socially. What is your identity? How did you get it? What does it mean to whom? And Ihow do you pull it off? This time, we are going to think about performance and performativity by diving into the notoriously complicated work of Judith Butler, who argued that gender works through continuous psychological and social performance.

Together, we are going to discover how simple and powerful this idea really is, how it can help us figure out what is going on in a lot of social spaces, and how being a failed performance is exactly how to be a person in this economy.

The workshop will be facilitated by Macon Holt, a cultural theorist and writer and the founder of Aesthetic Theory.

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in case it gets sold out as fast as the first two times we will add another workshop on Monday, August 11th, 18:15-20:15