"This article by the anthropologist Teri Silvio was written some twenty-five years after Agnew’s Worlds Apart, and it speaks to the sea-change in conceptions of the subject occasioned by the new omnipresence of digital media. In this brilliant article, Silvio suggests that 'animation has the same potential as a structuring trope in the age of digital media and the rise of the creative industries that performance had in the age of broadcast media and the rise of the service industry.' Recalling the importance of tropes of performance to describe social interaction in the social sciences and philosophy over the last decades, Silvio asks us to think about how animation might similarly provide tropes for thinking about subject and community. The practices of cosplay, the ontology of avatars, the shift toward 'world making' in global entertainment could all furnish means for thinking about new forms of human relation in a digitally mediated world."

Silvio, Teri. "Animation: The New Performance?" Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20. 2 (December 2010): 422-438. [Wiley or AnthroSource]