Performance – Cinema – Sound. Perspectives and Retrospectives in Central and Eastern Europe

0533207 - ÚČL 2021 DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Matonoha, Jan - Short, D.
Pitfalls of performativity: carrying on as if there’s nothing doing. The Genealogy and Range of Performativity.
Performance – Cinema – Sound. Perspectives and Retrospectives in Central and Eastern Europe. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2019 - (Glanc, T.; Kazalarska, Z.; Kliems, A.), s. 13-22. ISBN 978-3-643-91081-3
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : performance * performativity * gender * poststructuralism
OECD category: Specific literatures

Summarizing the works of authors such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, or Jan Mukařovský, the paper reminds a reader of the long debated and clarified issues of discursive constructedness of social and cultural categories (where for instance, not only gender but even sex is discursively constructed). We tend to act as if these categories were original and given, while in reality, they are discursively constructed and shaped in negotiations and are in slow yet constant flux, or – said in one expression - performed. This very fact however, albeit clear in a secondary meta-position of reflection, is however obscured and forgotten in everyday life which further empowers their as if originary status.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0311754