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In responding to 9/11 through a critique of Austin’s speech-act theory, Mark Franko writes:
Now the event that ‘happens to us’ ‘mocks’ [… our] understandings of the speech act. The event, in other terms, is neither conventional, logocentric, nor iterative. The singular presence of ‘what takes place’ takes the place of the performative, and mocks it, displaces it, and supersedes it. In other terms, the event disarms the performative by effectively removing its capacity to respond. The event leaves the act ‘speechless’.
(Lepecki, 2004, p. 116)
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Jones, S. (2012). Not Citizens, But Persons: The Ethics in Action of Performance’s Intimate Work. In: Chatzichristodoulou, M., Zerihan, R. (eds) Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283337_3
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