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I had to address this in an essay I wrote for my MA about Rancière and irony (see footnote 44). Essentially there are two meanings for 'performative'—one technical and one colloquial—and annoyingly they mean almost exactly the opposite to each other. medium.com/@SimonXIX/assessed-essay-rancière-critique-and-irony-7e85ebf7fa9b @bokatlindell/1201521120442245120