Branislav Jakovljević

Branislav Jakovljević is Professor in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. His most recent book, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1945–1991 (2016) won the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award for 2017 and the 2016/17 Joe A. Callaway Award for the Best Book in Drama or Theatre from NYU.

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The heightened impossibilization of performance : Gloss

After almost three weeks of “sheltering in place,” I noticed that an entire layer of language has been sliced off from my life. The texture of language consists not only of words, but of touches, gestures, bodily postures, smells, ambiance, and even the weather.