1. A Term Hard To Pin Down Performative ： a noun and a adjective Performativity ： -whole panoply of possibilities -similar to “as performance” -construction of social reality -theories Performance writing

2. Performance and speech acts Austin -“to say something is to do something” -parasite / Derrida -Searle Notions of performativity permeate culture. “real life” to gain market share and revenues -films, shows, Livingstone, cameras, websites

3. Postmodernism Lyotard, Hutcheon, Jameson Is a practice in visual arts, archetecture, performance art 1960s –master narratives -media, internet What was an “original”? -painting, photo, digital image, cloning “nature” and “art”

4. Simulation is not pretense, imitation, or fiction, is a replication -“Kaycee’s death and life on the internet” -Disney world -Plimoth Plantation -child pornography -emotional simulations for military In science

5. Poststructuralism/Destructrualism Anti-authoritarian, revolt against structuralism, a discourse began in 1960s with student insurrections Every act, every idea, is a performative Derrida -writing is a power struggle -histories -Differance&Brecht Differance means “difference” + ”deferral”

6. The diffusion of poststructralism 1980s –spread far beyond France A wide range of theories and studies -The Frankfurt School, Marx, Freud -gender, cultural, postcolonial, queer,performance “decentering” How to continue those concepts?

7. Problems with poststrucralism -Not direct impact on majority of people -campus radicals Anti-canonical Community-based performance Magic bullet or scapegoats?