Performativity and Performance

by Andrew Parker (Editor), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Editor)

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Theory

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 24, 1995

About the author

Andrew Parker is a zoologist who has worked on Biomimetics. He worked at the Natural History Museum in London, and from 1990 to 1999 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and University of Sydney and from 1999 until 2005 he worked at the University of Oxford. As of 2018 Parker is a Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College where he is head of a Research Team into photonic structures and eyes.

Reviews

[Amanda Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interacting with performativity as a linguistic concept was new for me—ignorant as I was of the term's etymology—and the collected essays from this seminar tend, for newcomers, toward the inaccessible, mostly due to side-winding arguments (and occasionally due to showmanship in lexicon). However, all the articles included here conveyed ideas I found fruitful to ponder on, regardless of my conviction to agree or disagree with the authors' theses.