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date: '2025-11-19'
description: language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change.
id: performativity
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:22 GMT-04:00
seealso:
  - '[[thoughts/identity|identity]]'
  - '[[library/Civilisation and its Discontents|C&D]]'
  - '[[thoughts/repression|repression]]'
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  - philosophy
  - pattern
title: performativity
created: '2025-11-19'
published: '2025-11-19'
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captures how we enact rather {{sidenotes[^than express]}} [[thoughts/identity|identity]]

{{sidenotes[than express]}}:
you become yourself through the performaces rather than having a “self” that represents yourself.

This performance constitutes to who you are, and it blends with your _authentic self_.