Introduction

When we're all done, and future civilizations dig us up and try to reconstruct what was going on at this point in time, they'll be pretty confused about why everybody wasn't talking about the cliff that we're all hurtling towards. If you're talking about metaphysics or mediaeval philosophy outside the context of the climate crisis, en, you're irrelevant. When most people hear the word performative, they think judith butler for a good reason. We do go to say that this is one of those words that was grown in the petri dish of humanity's departments, and it had a specific meaning, and now it's got out and it's infected the world, and