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What was added, rather, was the awareness that all art is always performatory, that it not so much says something about reality, but, by its occurence and presence, does something as a reality in its own right ....
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What was added, rather, was the awareness that all art is always performatory, that it not so much says something about reality, but, by its occurence and presence, does something as a reality in its own right ....
Experimental Fiction 2010
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What was added, rather, was the awareness that all art is always performatory, that it not so much says something about reality, but, by its occurence and presence, does something as a reality in its own right ....
December 2009 2009
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J.L. Austin explored the performatory uses of language, and in morals the actual assignment of obligation and responsibilities,
RIGHT AND GOOD ABRAHAM EDEL 1968
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