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tion.4Itisduetothedeconstructionistsofthelatterera-e.g.anthropologists,
ethnographers,sociologists,psychologists,linguists,orliteraturecritics,aswell
asreallifeartists,politicalactivistsandotherprofessionals-who,byperceiving
theworldasinterpretablediscourse,turnedthetraditionalvisionofcultureas
aunitarysystemonitshead:aparadigmofparticularformalstylesanddevic-
essohighlytechnicalandabstractthatitcouldonlybeapproachablebyanar-
rowcircleofartistsandcritics.5Consequently,theytookthefirststepdirected
totransgressingthecontemplationimageofthehumanitiestowardsoneofend-
lesstransformation-or,assomeofthesenon/theoristswouldprefertoseeitlat-
eron,performance.
Isthereadiferencebetweenthesetwoperceptionsofthehumanitiesatall?
Letapartofperformancetheoryitself,poststructuralism)sprodigalson,serveas
anexplanationofthisverycomplexfamilyrelationship:uPerformancesareac-
tions….[taken]veryseriouslyinfourways,”wroteSchechnerin2002andpointed
toubehavior,”uartisticpractice,”ufieldwork,”andusocialpracticesandadvocacies”
asthechiefobjectsofstudyofperformancestudies.(PerformanceStudies…1-2)
Seenviathepostmoderndiscursivelens,thecontentofalltheseinvertedcommas,
includingthemselves(andconstituting,alongwiththebracketsorslashes,the
essenceofperformativestatements),andviawhichSchechnerperformsacriti-
calalternativeorpossibility,wouldtypicallybenpostcolonized”(orudeconstruct-
ed”)asthisaction)slimits,andsubsequentlyrereadforthepurposeofliberating
itstextualanti-identity.Poststructuralism)stransformativepotentialasregards
performativitywouldthereforeattesttoanabilitytoverballyuenact”thelatter
concept)s-alleged-act-ivepowerbalance,sothatitbecomes,toparaphrasethe
upope”ofpoststructuralism,JacquesDerrida,udis/placed”asaunon/conceptual
4
However,Schechnerclaimsthatuthereisnohistoricallyorculturallyfixablelimittowhatisoris
notCperformance)
.”(PerformanceStudies…2)Consequently,theactualbeginningsofperformance
studies-whichearlyperformancecriticstendedtoidentifywiththebeginningsoftheatre-are
impossibletobegrasped.
5
Inthecontextofperformance,afinesynthesisofpostmodernismasananti-paradigmistobe
foundine.g.Carlson,Marvin.Performance.ACriticalIntroduction.NewYork:Routledge2004.
SeealsoDomańska,Ewa.uCZwrotperformatywny)wewspółczesnejhumanistyce.”TekstyDrugie.
No.5,2007:48-61.http://www.staf.amu.edu.pl.AccessedAugust8,2014.
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