Definition of "liveness" [liveness]

• The property of being alive. (noun)

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• "Coined by the BBC in 1934, "liveness" became a nifty discursive distinction when an ontological one didn't really exist."
• "It was in the desperation to make sense of this difference that "liveness" was finally born."
• "As Von Phillip Auslander writes in "Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture," "liveness" never really referred to co-presence in space and time."