After many years going back to making academic books, to reworking old writings and co-writing new ones with my former professor and mentor Aleksandra Jovićević:
Cognitive Architecture of Critical Performance Studies (Architettura cognitiva e critica dei performance studies)
Aleksandra Jovićević & Ana Vujanović
Rome: Luca Sossella Editore, 2026
ISBN 979-12-5998-108-0
This book – published in Italian language and to an extent for the Italian context – offers a comprehensive introduction and critical reflection on performance studies, a relatively recent and interdisciplinary field that examines performance as a broad continuum of human and cultural actions, from ritual, play, and everyday social behavior to theatre, dance, and experimental artistic practices. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and feminist, gender, queer, and cultural studies, the authors explore how performance operates not only in the arts but across social, political, and cultural life.
