ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Brisini argues that performance studies—particularly North American performance studies—has been comparatively slow to take up posthumanist ideas, a scenario that both limits our ability to “talk the talk” of contemporary academic discourse as well as precludes us from utilizing the insights of posthumanist theory in our written and embodied scholarly works. Brisini contends that performance research is uniquely situated as a scholarly tradition and practice to engage in the posthumanist turn, and operates under a number of presumptions that are seemingly already aligned with posthumanist philosophy.
