I would argue that one of the hinges of democracy is performance. In our contemporary world, a world that is highly self-conscious, reflexive, obsessed in every aspect of its social awareness, with performance as a kind of critical wedge, the metaphor of theatricality has moved out of the arts into almost every aspect of modern life and into every branch of the sciences from sociology, to anthropology; ethnography; psychology, and linguistics.
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