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At present, the eTree exhibits a limited range of performative abilities such as flex, stretch, and twist intended (at the next stage), to engage sensed aerodynamic, seismic, and tropic input/output responses.
It was more performance art than performative fandom.
Because the latest 2017 Center Exam still does not measure any performative types of writing or speaking abilities, as speculated in Study 1, this lack of alignment between governmental goals and student proficiency can again be attributed mainly to the ways in which the high-stakes university entrance exams are conducted (compatibility and observability).
Performative endurance, or endurance as performance?
For, unlike other potential candidates – Theresa May, Adam Afriye, George Osborne, et al – who all insist on being taken seriously, Johnson's performative disregard for not shooting his mouth off, his ability to be play the dartboard, might just be enough.
She transforms herself into a theatrically performative, heightened, and distilled version of herself, and it's her ability to tell that story that makes the product a success.
As we have seen, one can perform a speech act without uttering a performative.
It's that ability to re-address his material on the fly that makes Squarepusher such a flexible performative entity, but his penchant for the mutable is born more from the fear of boredom than it is the love for bookings.
