Situated Bayes—The Cancelling Out of Chance
The open access journal Computational Culture features a special issue on mathematical probability entitled Situated Bayes – Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge, in which scholars from media and cultural studies as well as science and technology studies contributed articles addressing the Bayesian interpretation of probability. Bayes’ theorem articulates a recursive calculus that takes
Performance Research Journal “On Spirituality”
This special journal issue, edited by Theron Schmidt and Evelyn Wan, invites the study of spirituality via a performance studies lens, considering the ways in which attention to spiritual practice can foreground alternative lineages of knowledge transmission, subaltern histories and marginalized figures, and non-standard views on media, technology, ecology, and embodiment.
Performance Pedagogy
Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations (edited by Felipe Cervera, Diana Damian Martin, Eero Laine, and Theron Schmidt, with contributions from UU MCW researchers Anika Marschall and Maaike Bleeker) is an Open Access publication that explores an expanded approach to pedagogy via performance, in which to teach and learn performance is to teach and learn how to do
Creative Urban Methods Dossier
This special issue of Mediapolis, A Journal of Cities and Culture by Sigrid Merx, Coco Kanters, Michiel de Lange, and Nanna Verhoeff, introduces a dossier that positions creative methods as vital approaches for researching contemporary urban life. The authors argue that experimental, situated, embodied, and relational practices—such as data walking, performative mapping, experimental ethnography, and participatory research—generate forms
Simulation, Speculation and Futurity in Contemporary Dramaturgy
This research project and book (forthcoming at Routledge in 2026) observes and documents a return to fiction, in contemporary theatre and performance. In response to pressing issues such as climate change, faltering democracies or social inequality, artists rediscover the value and necessity of imagination and speculation, in order to create alternative scenarios for a world
Performance Research Methods
This project and book describes and collects methods for interdisciplinary research, amongst others Dramaturgical Analysis, Spectatorship Analysis, Intersectionality, Practice-led Research, Performance Philosophy, Movement Analysis and many more approaches relevant to dramaturgy.
Doing Dramaturgy
This book explores how the practice of dramaturgy is shaped by today’s highly diverse fields of theatre, dance, and performance. Through dialogue with fourteen performances and their makers, it traces the thinking-through-practice that underpins these works. The book examines dramaturgical thinking as a material and embodied practice, and understands theatre-making as an expression of that
The Practice of Dramaturgy
The Practice of Dramaturgy addresses dramaturgy as a shared, politicized and catalytic practice that sets actions into motion in a more speculative, rather than an instructive way. The first part explores three working principles that lie at the heart of the editors’ propositions, and relates these to debates on action, work and post-Fordist labour. The second