/lit/ — Can reading really be performative? I see this get thrown he

I thought performative reading only meant holding a book open, pretending to read in public to look erudite

Tribe Elder, Grug has been noticing some things
Other cave members say Grug and other men no read the runes
But then when Grug read something, he called "performative"
Grug no can win, if Grug read, he performative, otherwise Grug is called dumb for no read
Make me want hit mammoth in anger

it's just some nonsense among women, don't worry about it

The nature of existence among others is at least some form of performance.

Looking like a pretentious dickhead who reads classic literature in public is at least a performative identity within your control as opposed to being a hyper self-conscious spaz trying to be ‘authentic’ and just looking like an autistic freak in the process.

Be as idealistically performative as you can and soon enough it’ll stop feeling like a performance.

when there are dull spaces of time out and about i just stare or space out
i wish my phone entertained me but time goes quicker when i'm just in my head
i'm certain i look strange to others though

"Whether you levitate or bend spoons...
Extra! Extra! Read all about me!"

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>>25337764 (OP)
>Can reading really be performative?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin
>According to some histories, Macklin claimed at one of these shows to have such a good memory that he could recite any speech after reading through it once. As a challenge, Samuel Foote allegedly wrote The [Grand] Panjandrum, a nonsense poem designed to be particularly difficult to memorise.
>So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

>>25338289
>what! no soap?
LMFAO

I swear if I see one more person use “performance” and “performative” interchangeably I’m going to lose my fucking mind

Has anyone here even read JL Austin??

>>25337764 (OP)
If someone is doing it with their main intention of trying to look good for others then it's on some level performative. Not all public reading is performative but when a guy in his twenties is reading The Handmaids Tale or some other trash feminist literature in a local coffee shop then it's probably performative.

>>25338433
Is Austin cool? I mean of course he is. I read him before he was cool. Keep up anon

>>25337764 (OP)
Owning a stack of books you have not read and posting your stack on 4jizz 4 upvotes is performative

>>25338246
Nah, Adam Smith had imaginary friends and was so stuck in his head that he fell in a ditch when walking a long distance.

>>25337764 (OP)
>Can reading really be performative?
You're on /lit/ where over 50% of users pretend the only things worth reading are the Greeks and philosophical essays. What do you think?

>>25338460
truke

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>>25338451
>t.

>>25337764 (OP)
>start with the classics
now THIS is performative book reading.
are you reading the classics because you want to or are you reading them because some fatso on /lit/ said you are a "stupid niggerfaggot" if you don't?

>>25339539
They called me that because I did start with the Greeks. >>25338699 leave me alone. Ahh

>>25339155
Look at that man.. no A BOY! Is his entire performative existence not so pathetic as to appear adorable? Would you not wish to take him by the hair and pull him backwards, not too hard, not to hurt, but hard enough to startle and instill a deep-brooding, almost imperceptible fear stemming from fertile confusion?
He would not understand what is happening, no: "this is not normal", his intuition would produce. "What are you doing..", he'd say aghast, looking at me like at an animal, not expecting an animal to abide by the human norms.
I would stare from above, eyes wide open, still holding onto his hair. "No performative reading!", I would exclaim and deliver a spittle unto his face. "Start with Greeks, ok?", I'd say as he squirmed, trying to escape my control.
Finally, as he rotates himself into a fight-or-flight position, and I let go of his hair, I'd grab onto his effeminate bag, and be surprised by its slight heaviness, but only just as slightly, and start running while swinging the bag in a centrifugal manner.
"Fucking poseurs!", I scream as I run, "a twink like that could do better!". I let go of the bag.
"The act is concluded, and the actor is bored", I think to myself, "The hair felt pleasantly fluffy against my savage hands".

>>25339805
kek

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>>25337857
>performative fellatio

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>>25339805
>swinging the bag in a centrifugal manner

>>25338290
No soap, radio!

>>25339805
it's ai bro look at the pins on his bag "no lintts"

i actually started this meme. it originates from my Instagram account which has 3 posts

>>25338433
How to Do Things With Words

I feel your pain anon

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>>25337764 (OP)
Yeah. It definitely can be.

>>25340164
best not be any lintts

>>25340276
>disgustingly educated
Im starting to see this more often.

>>25340458
What does it even mean? You are so educated that people are repelled by it?

>>25337764 (OP)
leave 4chan
its shit

>>25338433
No but I do have his book and I'm looking to wander in the direct pretty soon with pragmatics and semantics.

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>tfw reading books like pic related on public transport so that if they glance at the page they think they’re having a stroke
My necromodernist tome beats your feminist autofiction every day of the week. If you’re not performatively schizomaxxing in public you’re doing it wrong

>>25337764 (OP)
I would and claim that the processes from which the sources to some text that are generate partially from the hermeneutic spiral and which interrogates meaning and therefore shared some and more than some few reckons with anthropology and christian anthropology and here reading and interiority have value to remark are because there were points to dispute about on to context about christians that cannot or do not read and the closest thing to the secular sphere were stained glass the christian were many ways remarkable concerning reading and logos or the word and also the muses even if milton writes about the muses surely cleo were the most down to the earth that the muses anyways christians that cannot or do not read are not concern with cleo the muse to history unless cleo were blowing some horn at the gates to the apocalypse but for my money cleo were more busy figuring out the how as to how the sound of some trumpet brought down the walls of jericho and that’s because cleo were the muse to history and the christians that cannot read I’m not sure how much stained glass there was of cleo and that christians that cannot or do not read were unacquainted as to clear and the inquiry to history and performing an inquiry unto history possibly by invoking cleo and that might have some performative aspect and figures and figures to those aspects that some duty to history was also get accomplished and achieved and the accomplishing and achieving of that took precedence over the christians that do not and the christians that cannot read and the non read christians because performative was part to the function to writing history and writing was all about lies like herodotus claimed and the flying egyptian serpents or something like that

>>25337764 (OP)
We're in 2026 nonny, everything is performative.
Give me a (you) if you agree!

>>25340808
Academic validation.
"Look I'm so smart, professor Doofenshmirtz gave me an A in Industrial Psychology Marketing 101"

>>25343392
PERRY THE PERFORMATIVE PLATYPUS?

>>25343392
>>25343413
>mean age of this board: 27
Maybe its 23..

>>25337764 (OP)
All reading is performative