Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 12, No. 4 (2016) ISSN: 1557-2935 <http://liminalities.net/12-4/commute.pdf> Deconstructing/Performing The Commute: Proto-Poststructuralist Theory and Individual Motility Hunter H. Fine The Commute is an everyday performative inquiry of spatial subjectivity, fea- turing the places, bodies, and objects of an everyday urban environment performed and presented by the author. This performance of individual motility reflects a conscious drifting from and toward social and spatial structures that territorialize everyday life, notably the necessity to earn a living, the desire to identify with the process, and the practice of moving between. This essay and corresponding video is a trajectory, a com- mute toward leisure and from work in an effort to perform a deconstruction of identity based on leisure and labor. Recognizing the hierarchies prevalent within this distinction, I interrogate the ways in which my own spatial subjectivity has been appropriated as a precarious working academic and practitioner of the eve- ryday. By exploring the practices and routes that inform this identity I hope to move from static conceptions of class identity and toward a fluid subjectivity of individual resistance through a visceral example of working-leisure. The Commute is a quotidian journey through the San Francisco Bay Area on my way to work. By striving to understand the liminal spaces within identity formations, somewhere between the competing perspectives of work and leisure, home and office, I explore the dialogic production of my own spatial practices. Considering the tensions within these everyday relations, actualized by specific Hunter H. Fine (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is a communication scholar conducting practice-based research at the intersections of performance, rhetoric, critical cultural studies, and poststructuralist theory. Often emphasizing interactions between physical locations and mediated environments, his work continues to explore the social constructions of place and space as well at the tactical negotiations of power therein. His work can be found in Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature, Communi- cation Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications, and the Journal of Popu- lar Culture. He currently teaches and designs courses in cultural communication, rhetori- cal theory, social advocacy, popular discourse, and communication theory at Humboldt State University.