Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
New Books in Critical Theory
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What Is Performance Performativity?
Performativity is a term that's been in the english language, you know, since the early modern period. In the fifties, the british analytic philosopher who worked on linguistics, j l austin, performed a series of lectures at harvard in which he invented the term performative. And so by the 19 seventies, you have a kind of a coalescing idea that performance was any kind of twice behaved behavior. By the e seventies and eighties, you find people starting to think about identity as a process. This comes out of really the social sciences, but it's taken up by someone like judith butler,. She then famously puts it together
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