The general drift is a mere activity in a certain direction
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In her obituary for dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, Helen Shaw mentions that "Reinking actually had to audition for the role of herself in All That Jazz, Bob Fosse’s 1979 semi-autobiographical film about a Broadway choreographer (played by Roy Scheider) stretching himself too thin." This immediately struck me as a metaphor for basically everything I tend to write about: the production of the self, "authenticity" as an alibi, identity reified as capital, mediation as a mode of production, reality TV and social media as ideological operating systems or means of formatting everyday life, and so on and so on. How hard did she prepare for that tryout?
The general drift is a mere activity in a certain direction
The general drift is a mere activity in a…
The general drift is a mere activity in a certain direction
In her obituary for dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, Helen Shaw mentions that "Reinking actually had to audition for the role of herself in All That Jazz, Bob Fosse’s 1979 semi-autobiographical film about a Broadway choreographer (played by Roy Scheider) stretching himself too thin." This immediately struck me as a metaphor for basically everything I tend to write about: the production of the self, "authenticity" as an alibi, identity reified as capital, mediation as a mode of production, reality TV and social media as ideological operating systems or means of formatting everyday life, and so on and so on. How hard did she prepare for that tryout?