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Fates of the Performative - From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism (Hardcover)
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Fates of the Performative - From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism (Hardcover)
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A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's
next?" for this well-worn concept From 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 deployed by key writers in the past
sixty years, including foundational thinkers like Jacques Derrida,
Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, and Judith Butler; contemporary theorists
such as Thomas Piketty and Antonio Negri; and the "conceptual
poetry" of Kenneth Goldsmith. Ultimately, Nealon's inquiry is
animated by one powerful question: what's living and what's dead in
performative theory? In deconstructing the reaction against the
performative in current humanist thought, Fates of the Performative
opens up important conversations about systems theory, animal
studies, object-oriented ontology, and the digital humanities.
Nealon's stirring appeal makes a necessary declaration of the
performative's continued power and relevance at a time of
neoliberal ascendancy.
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