What is performatism?
Performatism,
also known as “post postmodernism,” is described as being “after
postmodernism” or “the end of postmodernism.”
It
is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical
theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which
are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.
Key features
The
model has four key features:
- Semiotic mode of performatism requires things to be integrated into the concept of sign
- Aesthetic device to performatism is double framing - the fit between the outer frame (work itself) and the inner frame (an ostensive scene)
- Human performative characters consolidate their position by appearing opaque to the world around them
- Theist mode - time and space are framed so that subjects have a chance to orient themselves around them and transcend in some way
Theorist
The
term was coined by Raoul
Eshelman, a German-American, in 2000. He defines performatism as:
“An
epoch in which a unified concept of sign and strategies of closure
have begun to compete directly with - and displace - the split
concept of sign and the strategies of boundary transgression typical
of postmodernism.”
The
concept appears to consider wider contexts of “art” by looking at
it in the literal sense, focusing on form and position. This differs
to postmodernism which seems “art” as being undermined by
narrative or visual devices.
Reading
list
Remenyi,
Dan (1999). Language
and a post-modern management approach to information systems.
International
Journal of Information Management. pg. 7
Derrida, Jacques
(1966) Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human
Sciences
Eshelman,
Raoul (2008) Performatism, Or The End of Postmodernism
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