Abstract:

This brief essay is excerpted from my State of the Profession plenary presentation, delivered at the American Society for Theatre Research conference on October 28, 2021. Patrick Anderson and I reference this presentation in our essay, "Is This Ballroom a Bathhouse? The Promise and Peril of Coming Together," which also appears in this issue of the journal. I offer it here to expand upon our discussion on how Abdoh's politics and aesthetics are relevant to our current set of cultural crises. In the full version, I combined my analysis of Reza Abdoh with consideration of how decolonial theory by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson might offer transformative possibilities for university culture; these possibilities are touched upon at the end of this excerpt.

摘要：

这篇简短的文章摘自我在 2021 年 10 月 28 日在美国戏剧研究协会会议上发表的职业状况全体会议上的演讲。帕特里克安德森和我在我们的文章“这个舞厅是浴室吗？承诺和聚在一起的危险”，也出现在本期杂志上。我在这里提供它是为了扩展我们关于阿卜杜的政治和美学如何与我们当前的一系列文化危机相关的讨论。在完整版中，我将对 Reza Abdoh 的分析与对 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 的非殖民化理论如何为大学文化提供变革性可能性的考虑结合起来；这些可能性在本摘录的末尾有所提及。