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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Judith Butler qa > Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Spencer Bokat-Lindel on Turducken To: <nytnews@nytimes.com> To Spencer Bokat-Lindell, | very much appreciated your piece in performative Turkey, but wanted to caution against the association of ‘performative’ with fake. The term gained meaning through J.L. Austin’s theory of speech acts. There he gives the example of legal performative s such as “I sentence you” or “I pronounce you man and wife.” In those cases the speech act makes something real happen in the world. Someone goes to jail or two people get married. Similarly, in Notes Toward a Performative Theory is Assembly, a title that appears to be echoed by your interesting piece, assemblies form an exemplify sometimes the very principles for which they call. They bring about a reality, or seek to, but they are not producing a falsehood by virtue of their performativity. Although some take performative to mean ersatz, that is not the main meaning of the term in speech act theory or its queer theory appropriation. Such a construal suggests that performative effects are not real or are the opposite of real. In any case, | enjoyed your piece. best wishes, Judith Butler UC Berkeley