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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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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.
Action signs, like vocal signs also take part in deictic reference, indexicality and performativity.
His major interest circles around the notions of event, performativity, as well as the figure of the artist as an amateur.
The notions of code performativity and activation are useful in this approach.
They have become institutions measuring performativity in a very quantitative sense that favours the style of work of certain academics over others.
As with intimacy, it may be best framed in terms of performativity and performance, embodiment and duration.

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