Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance by Jon McKenzie

By Jon McKenzie

'Performance' has turn into one of many keyword phrases for the hot century. yet what will we suggest by way of 'performance'? In cutting-edge international it may well check with experimental paintings; productiveness within the office; and the performance of technological platforms. Do those disparate fields undergo any relation to every other?
In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie asserts that there's a dating cultural, organisational, and technological functionality. during this theoretical journey de strength McKenzie demonstrates that every one 3 paradigms function jointly to create strong and contradictory pressures to 'perform...or else'. this can be an pressing and significant intervention in modern serious pondering. it's going to profoundly form our realizing of twenty-first century constructions of energy and knowledge.

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