One Part Water, Two Parts Starch: Performing oobleck as political resistance
Oobleck is two things: a non-Newtonian fluid, a mixture of cornstarch and water showing properties of both a liquid and a solid; and an invention by Dr. Seuss, an odd green weather occurrence who’s fluid, adhesive, and elastic attributes manage to threaten the entire state apparatus of the “Kingdom...
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| description | Oobleck is two things: a non-Newtonian fluid, a mixture of cornstarch and water showing properties of both a liquid and a solid; and an invention by Dr. Seuss, an odd green weather occurrence who’s fluid, adhesive, and elastic attributes manage to threaten the entire state apparatus of the “Kingdom of Didd.” Re-viewing the children’s book Bartholomew and the Oobleck, and in light of its starch-and-water namesake, I argue that we can learn an insurrective strategy of political resistance from its performativity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ebdd89574c13492c89dabd738190035a2022-12-21T19:50:36ZengPerformance PhilosophyPerformance Philosophy2057-71762019-11-015115817110.21476/PP.2019.51265155One Part Water, Two Parts Starch: Performing oobleck as political resistanceJosh Widera0California Institute of the ArtsOobleck is two things: a non-Newtonian fluid, a mixture of cornstarch and water showing properties of both a liquid and a solid; and an invention by Dr. Seuss, an odd green weather occurrence who’s fluid, adhesive, and elastic attributes manage to threaten the entire state apparatus of the “Kingdom of Didd.” Re-viewing the children’s book Bartholomew and the Oobleck, and in light of its starch-and-water namesake, I argue that we can learn an insurrective strategy of political resistance from its performativity.https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/265non-human studiesperformativityactivismanarchismreisistanceoobleckliteratureinopertativityvulnerabilityoccupyplant philosophygilets jaunesplasticity |
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| title | One Part Water, Two Parts Starch: Performing oobleck as political resistance |
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| title_short | One Part Water, Two Parts Starch: Performing oobleck as political resistance |
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