Critical Costume 2020 Exhibition: Costume Agency, curated by Yuka Oyama

In game studies, ‘agency’ is typically defined in terms of the ‘choices’ or ‘freedom’ granted to the player, which prioritises the influence of ludology on player engagement while ...

In the last decades, streams within posthumanism and new materialism, have turned their attention to the phenomenon of agency. And they have done so in ways which open the phenomen...

Abstract During a masterclass held in 2012, and in reference to her extensive publishing on film costume design, Deborah Nadoolman Landis invited the audience to als...

The chapter focuses on what it means to act. In various places, Butler claims that performativity is an account of agency. Agency, as this chapter endeavours to explain, is a mode ...

Frank Knight was a “grand theorist.” Like other grand theorists from Adam Smith to Friedrich A. Hayek, his interests extended beyond economics. In economics, his major writings foc...

Abstract Excess signals uncontrolled natural agency and thus provides a key ingredient in horror and ecohorror. Because excess ultimately threatens our agency over m...

Abstract “Art Communities At Risk: Slovenia” talks about how it is somehow easier to take a moral than a political position in times of crisis today—and how politica...