MCC-UE 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Judith Butler, Laugh Track, Performativity
27 Apr 2016
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They"re both fake but fake in fundamentally different ways. The performance of one exposes the performativity of the other. Remember that the performative makes other people do things: this is the crucial, dif cult part. Performativity: you don"t just produce it, you reproduce it. You imitate others for the bene t of others who imitate you. At every step reinforcing the shared identity. Think of the structure of performativity as a laugh track for everything. (because mediation dramatically transforms the systems of performativity) One is not sim-ply a body, but in some very key sense, one does one"s body, and, indeed one does one"s body differently from one"s contemporaries and from one"s embodied predecessors and successors as well . The culture may not simply be creating roles of naturally-gendered people, the culture may in fact be creating the gendered people. In other words, the culture may be creating gender.
