I was meant to construe the diagnosis as a congenital disorder that didn't trouble me at the most basic ontological level"-- the fundamental sort of level of being. "The performative linguistic protocols"-- meaning the way that doctors talk about this stuff-- "utilized by medical professionals in intersex diagnosis guard against this sort of existential dilemmas regarding what one is." They're trying to sort of prevent it from occurring within the patients that they treat.
it something that J L Austin this philosopher of language called performative speech. And performative a speech is basically not just language that describes something, like I am standing here. Performative speech is more like something that does something that is actually, it's performing the action that it's talking about.
Again, in no way is that the one definitive way. And that performative allyship or misplaced allyship is killing us, in that sense.
communities that were originally there, for instance, right? That it's performative , and that it looks diverse on the surface. But if you actually had a conversation with a parent and a kid about how diverse their life really is, that would really, really tell the truth
Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white. Go beyond performative , and enter diverse circles.
3-- curiosity is feigned. 4-- lying is performative . 5-- stupidity is power." So that's the end of the reading.
And the old witch, you know, loses her temper, realizes that someone has been getting in, and that Rapunzel is having a baby. what's technically called performative power.
They're describing it for the sake of changing it, of calling for more investments and more business opportunities and so on. So I take this performative potential also in my method. It is ethical in the sense it tries to take into account what others, other people, other games, other narratives, other ways of approaching video games and playing with them.
Brian had something really interesting to say about why he does the concert. Because it's performative in nature, it's active.
And they're like, this story-- that idea is good, but they did so badly. that is only performative .
And a question for both of the actors here. There's such a performative quality about the job, as it's required, not as actors but to work as counselors. Here, I think as it's seen very clearly in the movie, have to put on masks to go to work every day.
us not that interesting to watch was that we were engrossed in a lot of fairly obtuse technology onstage that didn't really have a lot of, I guess, sort of, what people who're smarter than me call "performative agency". That's just a fancy way of saying, when I do something onstage, you can't tell what I'm doing, and how it affects whatever you're experiencing. And so, so the, the, the easiest way to do this is to compare for example the cellist and myself. That's me with a laptop computer. You know, when a cellist plays a note, you
And at one time, it was like the plague mask, and now it's this white coat and the stethoscope and the reflex hammer. And there really truly is this performative aspect to medicine, to the physical exam. It feels like we're clergy, and there's some sort of sacrament to it.
It's that there's a lack of opportunity. don't force it for performative reasons, because to talk about girl power is one thing.
It's a funny thing, allyship. It's so easy to be performative about what you do. It's easy to be vocal in support.
Wow, that was good. Take some time that isn't performative , as David was saying.
It's the connections that we make with each other comes from revealing the truth of who we are. So the irony is that the performative aspect, where people come and they want to kind of entertain you and be funny and all of that, that bores me. That's what I'm going to get bored.
Brian had something really interesting to say about why he does the concert. for an enterprise version or a performative base-- maybe we'll get something down the road that'll let us actually overlap stuff and do it at the same time.
It happens when you're saying something like 'I promise, I swear, I bet'. These are all kind of examples of performative speech. There is something, if we have time at the end I'd like to talk about is, just like what language is. Like what effects does language have, you
You've got a podcast that's non-performative .
There's so much that's artificial and performative that people are starving for realism already, and this is pre-AI.
imagine one person's yoga class is actually really performative and more aligned with both self-care because
So what you end up having is what we now call performative art, where it's actually as we all perform for the interactor.
And I don't mean this in a performative way, I mean this is like an interpersonal way.
with a very specific narrative arc-- it's not a performative bit of invention-- is very risky,
they thought it was a fake wedding so that's a good example because it says a lot about language. One of the things that I'm interested in is it something that J L Austin this philosopher of language called performative speech. And performative a speech is basically not just language that describes something, like I am standing here. Performative speech is more like something that does something that
And I think that's true across all of medicine. But I think neurology maybe has the strongest claim to this ritual and performative aspect to medicine and to the physical exam. So the story of modern neurology goes back to this French hospital called the Salpetriere.
And for those who aren't familiar, performative allyship is when a company or an organization or a person claims to be supportive of a certain group
So one of the questions I have for you-- how did you navigate performative relationships in your time as a fashion executive
But are we actually walking that? So how can we desegregate our lives so that it's not just performative around talking about wanting diversity, or saying that we are diverse because we live in certain diverse neighborhoods but that are having really harmful impact for the Black and Brown
And this isn't a big, performative gesture.
It tries to join in the duration and the flow of time and tries to participate in the things and the world that surround us. It would be performative in the sense that it acknowledges that the things that we say are not just descriptive of the world, but they are world making.
Right? And so getting more into that concept of performative allyship, I think one example that we have talked about today is--
But writing it down is super powerful because then we can list exactly how we are and not in a performative way,
The one end of the spectrum where people are expressing themselves feels much more artistic and performative .
of female sexuality. You know, it's another performative space that presents it as for male gratification.
So especially now as we are thinking more in the world about what things actually require a human body to be-- like, what kinds of interactions actually require a human body to be a part of them, I feel like in medicine, I've thought a lot about, there's a ritual and a performative aspect to medicine. I feel like medicine, you wear a special costume, and you use these special tools.
crowds, so I may be biased, but we used to think that we're performative people. They wanted to be seen in the right place, doing the right, but part of that was the way that I used to argue,
what they're saying, but some of it feels like posturing. It feels performative . How much of this is just
about accessibility and sponsorship of para athletes is the dichotomy between exactly what you're talking about, which is performative versus true allyship.
And so you have to simultaneously, I would say, be performative .
Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white. that then a colleague of color, who I respect, says, wow, that wasn't that OK, or that looked a little performative , or whatever,
focus a little bit on my own research because this question is asked all the time, who gets to perform blackness right in the context off performative ity.
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artist whose works have taken the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, performative and interactive works. Her recent animated psychological narratives