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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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Critical Modelling as Reflective Practice

This insight navigates the evolving landscape of modelling, examining its roots in the sciences and its recent emergence in the digital humanities. I contend that despite the digital humanities’ emphasis on the creative and subjective nature of data modelling, visual representations often succumb to adopting scientific graphical tools without due consideration of epistemological biases. Inspired by design practice,…

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