This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.

Contributions by: Hilary Bryan, Maureen Burdock, Maxine Leeds Craig, Jess Curtis, Joseph Dumit, Sean Feit, Álvaro Iván Hernández Rodríguez, Verena Hutter, Nita Little, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Timothy Morton, Ilya Noé, Kevin O'Connor, Halifu Osumare, Bryan Reynolds, Guy Zimmerman