Postmodern Performativity of the Global World
Kateryna Honcharenko
Dragomanov Ukrainian State UniversityAbstract
The postmodern performativity of the contemporary globalized world primarily manifests in its role as the optimal mechanism for the reproduction of social reality. Conversely, it is precisely through postmodern approaches that new processes are performatively constructed and immediately integrated into circulatory systems. Postmodern characteristics – including fragmentation, pluralism, the decentralization of the subject, the economy of the sign, skepticism toward metanarratives, and deterritorialization – contribute to the formation of new performative normativity, and by extension legitimacy, grounded in transparency and precise correspondence to reality. The performative world is continuously constituted through actions that simultaneously construct and delineate it; this duality both aligns with the global world and enables survival within it. The core objective of this research is to delineate the mechanisms and principles governing the operation of postmodern performativity in the global world, as well as to refute the fallacy inherent in its everyday perception and application – where performativity is largely reduced to a "stage performance" of
spectacle within the social arena.
Keywords:
postmodern, performativity, globalization, postcolonialism, legitimacy, „Provincializing of Europe”References
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