Meaning of performativity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
   countable, uncountable
2. The quality of being performative.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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