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What does performativity mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
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As with intimacy, it may be best framed in terms of performativity and performance, embodiment and duration.
The model of academic performativity which emerges is one which is premised on a distinctly masculinised form of labour, situated in a distinctly masculinised culture.
He later came to prefer the term global theatre, since it better captured the sense of performativity that was characteristic of electric media.
For every sentence that hits the rich cadences of circus speak, there is a line that reads like a flat statement of performativity.
In its utopian aspect modularity denies the necessity of given identities, as implied by the concept of performativity.
Action signs, like vocal signs also take part in deictic reference, indexicality and performativity.

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