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Ifthesouthernperformativestudiesusesstandards,then,itdoessostrategi-
cally,bothtodeclareandundermine,viaembodiedaction,itsidentityasbeing
inanywaynormalized.Tusoperating:
notthroughdistinctmechanismsthatoneatatimesegmentandslowlymoldare-
pressivedesire[butrather]throughembeddedandmobilematriceswhoseshifing
patternsmodulateanuexcessive”desire,makingflowsofintensityshuttlequicklybe-
tweendiferentgrids,challengingdesiretomultitask,innovate,andindeedexceedit-
self,drivingdesireacrossdiferentthresholdsinordertotestthoselimitsthemselves
(McKenzie2001:188)
thesestudiescaneventuallyemergesasoneofthemostflexibleresearchtools
thatcontemporaryhumanitieshashadattheirdisposal.Seekingtoproducea
uchaoticmultiplicityofrepresentations…thatdisplace,bytheveryprocessofpro-
liferation,theauthorityofaconservativeideologyof…hegemony…myths,and…
practices,”20thesouthernperformancestudieseventuallyrecreatecultureunder-
stood,inthewordsofSusanSontag,asaustateofcontinualincandescence-a
[phenomenon]beingone,veryintensething.”21Suchavibrantentity,impossible
tobeenactedinthecourseofanyoneperformance,isthereforealsochalleng-
ingasaresearchsubject-butnotbecauseitsoverallpowertoperformisaresult
ofindividualdis/integrativere/creativities.Rather,theongoingthrillofexplor-
ing,understanding,promoting,andenjoyingasouthernperformativecultureis
duetothefactthat,asanarenaforallsortsofrecreations,itin/capacitatesthe
re/productionofanyun/predictableglobalresultsexceptmaybeforthisone:to
reconfiguretranscultureasanergonomically(i.e.non/democratically)function-
ingworldmachine.
20Román,David.uPerformin
gAllOurLives.AIDS,Performance,Community.”Criticalmeory
andPerformance.Ed.JanelleG.Reinelt,JosephR.Roach.AnnArbor:TeUniversityofMichi-
ganPress1992:215.
21Sonta
g,Susan.uNotesonCamp.”ASusanSontagReader.NewYork:Farrar,Strauss,Giroux1982:
114.
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