User:Jesse Morris

INTRODUCING PERFORMATIVITY

Performativity is a concept in the humanities and beyond that has today become deeply entangled with contemporary thinking across broad fields of inquiry. Despite its frequent invocations, its precise meaning and consequences can often escape us, many being left confused, alienated from the complex history that has interpellated performativity in a somewhat 'asymptotic' manner, it's double history seemingly as unstable as the phenomenon it seeks to describe. This wiki page is an attempt to create an introductory guide to the contributions of key thinkers of 'performativity'; a resource for students to quickly access their key terms in the hopes of creating an educational platform to constructively support a critical community and any who might seek to engage in this approach to culture and society today.