[-empyre-] Wearable Technologies, or dances with horse

[Simon Biggs]

I take the performative to mean an enactment intended to change the
environment in which it happens. That is the classic Austin definition but
extended beyond the linguistic to allow for other forms of action and
sources of agency. My understanding of Janis's comments are thus in line
with Austin's thinking but informed by Latour's work on science as praxis.

Best

Simon


On 06/05/2011 20:31, "Johannes Birringer" <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Janis argues (or uses Barad) that "science performs" or that " science, as a
> knowledge-based
> endeavour, is inherently ³performative² ...  hmmm, what is it that is
> performed?  The term performativity
> tends to be used these days quite a lot and I often wonder how it is used, for
> what end and in regard to what situation.


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