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Read My Desire, Pt. 2: Democracy, Anxiety, Film Noir

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There is certainly a logic from the beginning to the end that's exactly right you miss if you don't read it straight through. She subtly lays down the framework for how she's going to engage with butler and they're like three references throughout the book uh... to the word performative. Every time jones is the word performatives she's referring to the jl austin sense of afraid of these things with wordsHow to do things with words? How does one say "man and wife" in relation to being married or under arrest? That seems like stand-up comedy  one of one from nineteen ninety so probably probably not.

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