Selected Essays

Vanishing Acts: The Raw Materialism of Otobong Nkanga and Seba Calfuqueo,” TDR: The Drama Review 69: Special Issue 3: Performance, Possession, and Automation (2025).

Blockages,” in Dis:connectivity and Globalisation Concepts, Terms, Practices, ed. Christopher Balme et al. De Gruyter (2025).

Contre-Attaque,” Sidecar (March 2025). (Spanish translation here)

Brecht’s Scissors,” Sidecar (July 2024).

“The Point Was to Change It: In Memory of Hans-Thies Lehmann,” Contemporary Theatre Review 33:3 (2023).

“In Service to Capital: Theater and Marxist Cultural Theory,” in After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Colleen Lye and Chris Nealon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022).

“Theatrical Proletarians,” in Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism, ed. by Mark Steven. London: Bloomsbury (2021).

Marxist Keywords for Performance,” Journal of Theatre and Dramatic Studies 36:1 (2021). Written with the Performance and Political Economy Research Collective

Letter from London #5: Nothing Great about Britain,” Commune Magazine, (October 2019).

Letter from London #4: Playing Chicken,” Commune Magazine (September 2019).

Letter from London #3: Parliamentary LARPING,” Commune Magazine (September 2019).

Letter from London #2: Operation Yellowhammer,” Commune Magazine (September 2019).

Letter from London #1: Life in the UK,” Commune Magazine (September 2019).

Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy,” Theatre Survey 58:1 (2017).

Brecht’s Gale: Innovation and Postdramatic Theatre,” Performance Research 21:3 (2016).

Container Aesthetics: The Infrastructural Politics of Shunt’s The Boy Climbed Out of his Face,” Theatre Journal 68:1 (2016).

That Winter the Wolf Came, by Juliana Spahr,” The Scofield (2015).

Hans-Jürgen Krahl: From Critical to Revolutionary Theory,” Viewpoint Magazine (October 2014). Written with Daniel Spaulding.

“Soldiers, Cops, Imperialists,” Reclamations (February 2014). Written with Katy Fox-Hodess,.

“Absent Futures: The Ironic Manifesto in an Age of Austerity,” in Manifesto Now! Instructions for Philosophy, Performance, Politics, ed. by Laura Cull and Will Daddario. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press and Intellect Books (2013).

High as Finance,” The New Inquiry (April 2013). Written with Joshua Clover.

The University and its Lawful Business,” Counterpunch (March 2012). Written with Mattie Armstrong-Price.

“Thomas Ostermeier’s Othello,” Shakespeare 8:1 (2012).

“The Criminalization of Dissent: Protest Violence, Activist Performance, and the Curious Case of the VolxTheaterKarawane at the 2001 G-8 Summit,” TDR/The Drama Review 55:4 (2011). Winner of the TDR Student Essay Contest and the Dunbar Ogden Prize in Theatre History.

Berlin Cracks down on Squats: The Eviction of Liebig 14,” Counterpunch (February 2011).

Privatize Now, Ask Questions Later!! UCMeP’s Unauthorized Performance of Administrative Authority,” South Atlantic Quarterly 110:2 (2011).

“Play with Authority! Radical Performance and Performative Irony,” in Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Potentialities, ed. by Begüm Özden Firat and Aylin Kamil. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press (2011).

Aura and the Archive: Confronting the Incendiary Fliers of Kommune 1,” in A Tyranny of Documents, ed. by Stephen Johnson (2011).

“Was verbindet die Galerie ZERO und die O2 World?” in Katalog der Galerie ZERO Berlin: 2003-2009. Berlin: Gallery Zero (2009).