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Performativity

This curated collection approaches literature as a performative practice that actively builds and sustains temporal communities across time. It understands literature as something that happens in action (through transmission, performance and use) within dynamic networks of human and non-human actors. Focusing on performativity as both a methodological lens and a field of inquiry, the contributions…

How Are Communities Temporalised? Answers from Performance Theory

When viewed through the lens of performance theory, communities have always appeared temporal. Such a processual view is reflected in concepts such as the ‘theatrical community’ or the ‘aesthetic community’, which have been negotiated in the arts and humanities since the 1990s. However, according to the argument of this Insight, such communities have a strong…

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Competing Communities, Renaissance Style

This case study discusses competing communities as transtemporal networks that may manifest in contemporary constellations but that are not sufficiently described in the vocabulary of social groups and shared values. It takes a claim from the Cluster proposal as its starting point, namely that ‘communities based in mediated communication (and more specifically in writing/reading) inevitably…

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