Acknowledgments

This book has been a burden of love that was made ever-increasingly possible by so many colleagues and friends, both old and new: James R. Hamilton (Kansas State University) helped extend my view of triangulation happening, not just after the performance, but during it, too; David Krasner (Five Towns College), for his insightful comments during the writing process and a wonderful Foreword; Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona), for some enlightening email exchanges; Tzachi Zamir (Hebrew University at Jerusalem), who helped me narrow down a couple of the central questions of the book; David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin), for some good feedback; Eyal Tamir (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), for both being a helpful reader, and being my best friend; Maija Birenbaum (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), who read the introductory chapters a couple times and provided some great editorial advice; Louis Betty (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), who also read the introductory chapters; David Friedell (Union College), for help with various philosophical ideas that made it into this book; my dear family friend and retired Principal and Actuary at Deloitte, Jan Lommele, who directed me to Bayesian probability; and to Daniel Sack (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Andrew Sofer (Boston College), and John Muse (University of Chicago), all of whom led me to some really helpful sources. Easy to forget, but important to remember, I would also like to thank all of those anonymous reviewers throughout the many years of this project and/or related projects that helped ensure clarity and helped me flesh out and develop my ideas, even, a few times, giving me some of the very language that was needed to make my points. In practical terms, I want to thank the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for a sabbatical (Spring 2019).

Finally, I would like to thank Text and Performance Quarterly, for allowing a modified reprinting of an article that first appeared as, Michael Y. Bennett, “Carrying the Private in Public: Language and Performance in Susan Jahoda’s Flight Patterns.” Text and Performance Quarterly 36, no. 2–3 (2016): 137–148; I would also like to thank Rhizomes, for allowing a modified reprinting of an article that first appeared as Michael Y. Bennett, “The Minoritarian Linguist in Translation: Homebody/Kabul’s Answer to Deleuze and Guattari,” Boundaries of Publication: Posthumography, Special Issue of Rhizomes 20 (Summer 2010): http://www.rhizomes.net/issue20/bennett.html (Open Access).

Of course, none of this would have been possible without my friends and family. My best friend, Eyal, my parents, and my wife, Kelly, were particularly helpful for support and love over the past couple of years. I have needed and relied on them more than ever. I thank them for their unconditional love; I hope I am able to reciprocate even a tenth of what they give me every day.