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Dr. Sean Bartley
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Assistant Professor of Theatre History @NSULA. Experiential, Digital, and Immersive Performance, Sports as Performance. Director. Dramaturg. Masshole.
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Attending #ATHE25 from my office on campus and Donatella Galella's paper on Nymphia Wind in the Getting Real About Drag Race panel has me laughing so loudly that people are coming by to check on me. #ATHE2025 #theREAL
July 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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One week to opening! It's incredibly weird, but in a fun way!

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March 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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As I wrote in 2020:
An excerpt from Kellen Hoxworth’s essay “Football Fantasies: Neoliberal Habitus, Racial Governmentality, and National Spectacle” that reads: “Yet this fantasy is not one of political sovereignty but one that remakes all governance in the mode of economic sovereignty. Instead of the political sovereignty guaranteed by the state or a king, fantasy participants ensure their subjective sovereignty through the economic dictates of the ROI (return on investment). Instead this well-rehearsed confusion of sovereignties, sport and politics alike become intensified fields of competition for derivative value extracted from others. Anyone who fails to perform—to direct their behavior toward the production of human capital and the return of the sovereign owner’s investments—becomes disposable. Nonproductive human capital—dead weight—must be eliminated to reinvest in productive stock. The ROI is dead; long live the ROI.”
January 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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FSU Past and Present dinner at ASTR. Lovely conference, great WG (Futures of Theatrical Experience), much-needed reunions, and some killer Seattle food. Until Denver! #astr2024 #astr24
November 17, 2024 at 8:45 PM