Fates of the Performative
A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn conceptFrom its humble origins in J. L. Austin's speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown…
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A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn conceptFrom its humble origins in J. L. Austin's speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never merely concerned with linguistic meaning but rather constitutes an insight into the workings of immaterial force.Fates of the Performative takes a deep dive into this "performative force" to think about the continued power and relevance of this wide-ranging concept. Offering both a history of the performative's mutations and a diagnosis of its present state, Nealon traces how it has been
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