The Performance Complex
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The Performance Complex
Author: David Stark
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2020-07-10
Chapter 1 from this book is published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic What's valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens when ever more activities in domains of everyday life are evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. Unlike organized competitions, such systems are ceaseless and without formal entry. Instead of producing resolutions, their scorings create addictions. To understand these developments, this book explores discrete contests (architectural competitions, international music competitions, and world press photo competitions); shows how the continuous updating of rankings is both a device for navigating the social world and an engine of anxiety; and examines the production of such anxiety in settings ranging from the pedagogy of performance in business schools to struggling musicians coping with new performance metrics in online platforms. In the performance society, networks of observation - in which all are performing and keeping score - are entangled with a system of emotionally charged preoccupations with one's positioning within the rankings. From the bedroom to the boardroom, pharmaceutical companies and management consultants promise enhanced performance. This assemblage of metrics, networks, and their attendant emotional pathologies is herein regarded as the performance complex.
The Performance Complex
An increasing number of activities in everyday life are being evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. This book examines this assemblage of networks of observation -- in which all are performing and keeping score -- and their attendant emotional pathologies across various industries and occupations
The Performance Complex
Author: David Stark
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Release Date: 2020
The performance complex / David Stark -- Pick the winner, so you can then choose the reasons: epistemic dissonance in architecture competitions / Kristian Kreiner -- Competition and consecration in the world press photo awards / Marco Solaroli -- Classical music competitions as complex performances / Lisa McCormick -- Formalized evaluation: the work that rankings do / Wendy Espeland -- What's observed in a rating? Rankings as orientation in the face of uncertainty / Elena Esposito and David Stark -- Crowdsourcing before the smartphone: the Zagat survey's quantification of everyday life in 1980s New York / Will Payne -- Weathering winner-take-all: how rankings constitute competition on webcam sex platforms, and what performers can do about it / Olav Velthuis and Niels van Doorn -- Post-liberal competitions? Pragmatics of gamification and weaponization / William Davies -- What are digital reputation measures worth? The rise and fall of reputation metrics on social media / Dominique Cardon -- Merit, morality, and market: the Chinese social credit experiment / Jonathan Bach -- Performing numbers: musicians and their metrics / Robert Prey -- Business education and anxiety in the performance of value / Fabian Muniesa.