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  • noun philosophy The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.

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From performative.

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Examples

  • Furthermore, this later pole, of expression of performativity is linked to what Keach calls the "non-representational" character of form, which

    Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism) 2005

  • So it might be something like "gender and modernism" or "performativity" - just so I can find what I'm looking for when I'm looking for it.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • The chapter on race --specifically Critical Race Theory -- wasn't so much to try to extend the idea of performativity which I'm not too fond of to begin with but really simply because I think the ongong pomo discussions about "queering the body," while engaging sex, gender and orientation, have pretty much ignored race and issues of race.

    Progress Report 2008

  • But the idea of performativity gives us hope that we might be able to reenact gender differently, to see genders that aren't there for us right now 133.

    Progress Report 2008

  • because so often the idea of performativity is used to suggest that a strong gender identity is something fanciful or easily discarded, or that transgender people are just pretending, and I'm glad Cheryl was able to attack that idea.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • because so often the idea of performativity is used to suggest that a strong gender identity is something fanciful or easily discarded, or that transgender people are just pretending, and I'm glad Cheryl was able to attack that idea.

    Progress Report 2008

  • I contend that "performativity" in the sense of the way a dance,

    Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008

  • The ingrained values of gender definitions have "performativity": they push and press us, though it's not quite possible to know where; nor is it quite possible to determine whether one's "own" reiterations will have shifted the ground.

    Notes on 'Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.' 2005

  • a musical composition, or a part in a play is performed has practically nothing to do with "performativity" in the sense of the way a given enunciation can function as a performative speech act.

    Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008

  • For his part, Mark Gunderson displayed and demonstrated his homemade system for combining and playing samples, and thereby creating mashups live, in a manner that involved physical movement and therefore a kind of performativity in relation to the audience (unlike electronic

    Warren Ellis 2009

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