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Rooted in the ideal of what philosopher Cornel West (2000) calls an “active critical citizenry” (p. 183), I posit a counterperforming AIP curriculum theory of active, participatory spectatorship in both education and society.
To begin, I offer three found poems created from the works of cultural theorist Raymond Williams (1975) and performance theorist Baz Kershaw (2003), which serve to express some of the deep questions and concerns we face in our present-day culture and society. They are the underpinnings to what follows.
Raymond Williams—Two Found Poems
defining the problem
- i. we have never
- as a society
- acted so much
- or
- watched so many
- watching
- (of course)
- carries its own problems
- watching
- itself
- is problematic
- ii. drama is built
- into the rhythms
- of everyday life
- (drama as habitual experience)
- more in a week
- than most previous
- lifetimes
- at once
- a dramatic
- and a social
- fact