Eye of Prey

<p>Herbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from the theatricalized activism of the sixties into the theoretical activism of the eighties. The essays <i>theorize</i> rather than formulate an ideological program. Blau takes risks at the speculative edge of thought. <i>The Eye of Prey </i>is comprised of diverse subject matter: love and mourning play and aging radical feminist and homosexual discourse the politics of representation comedy since the Absurd Barthes and Beckett Beckett and Derrida--a critique of certain aspects of postmodern thought and performance and in particular the ideological program of the subject of desire.</p>