Revenge of the dead subject: The contexts of Michael Bowman's<i>Killing Dillinger</i>

Abstract

This essay offers critique of the call to specify the context of autoperformance, as if this context were not a construction. Michael Bowman's Killing Dillinger is used as an exemplar of auto‐performance's ability to resist the dismissives that it “preaches to the converted” and “turns away from the other.”