Perform or else : from discipline to performance / Jon McKenzie.
| Author/creator | McKenzie, Jon, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. |
| Description | x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Performance paradigms. The efficacy of cultural performance ; The efficiency of organizational performance ; The effectiveness of technological performance -- The age of global performance. Challenger lecture machine ; Challenging forth : the power of performance ; professor Challenger and the performance stratum -- Perfumance. Professor Challenger and the disintegration machine ; The catachristening of HMS Challenger ; Professor Rutherford and gay sci fi ; Jane Challenger, disastronaut. |
| Review | "In Perform or Else, Jon McKenzie uncovers an uncanny relationship between cultural, organizational, and technological performance. In this theoretical tour de force, McKenzie demonstrates that all three paradigms can operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures to 'perform - or else'." "His startling readings of the Challenger mission will ignite new lines of research, while his explosive conclusion - that performance will be to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries what discipline was to the eighteenth and nineteenth - is an exhilarating realization of how culture, business, and science have become hyperlinked through globalization. McKenzie then goes on to outline a vision of resistant strategies for the future."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-297) and index. |
| LCCN | 00046014 |
| ISBN | 0415247683 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415247689 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415247691 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415247696 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0203420055 |
| ISBN | 9780203420058 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780415247696 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BF481 .M395 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |