Jeffrey T. Nealon’s Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism crafts a history of performativity within contemporary theoretical thought. Through the structure of a genealogy, Nealon examines the nascence of performativity and its intersection with biopolitics and neoliberalism to predict not only the future of the performative, but also to imagine new avenues of criticism within the humanities.
Articles by Abigail Culpepper
Abigail Culpepper is a doctoral student in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University. Their research focuses on the limits between literature and theory, the human and the nonhuman. She is particularly interested in the usage of vegetal metaphors in poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.