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performativity
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Etymology
From performative + -ity.
Noun
performativity (countable and uncountable, plural performativities)
- (philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
- The quality of being performative.
- 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN:
- Keeping both American theater and its double within the sight lines, I would like to look at MPD as a pathology in which both both performativity and social performance are outstripped by a mise-en-scène that veers past the merely performative and dangerously close to theater itself, threatening to erase the differences in its very misappearance.
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