Abstract

Abstract:

This essay argues first that contemporary uses of the term performative reanimate discourses of political correctness to posit the ideal subject of politics as a subject of truth who is free from mystification, and, second, that this discourse is bound up with critical theorizations of the performative, performativity, and the subject which have proven limited in conceptualizing the performance of politics practiced by subalterns and minoritarian subjects.

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