Stephen,
the Derrida / Deleuze links or lack of them have been coverred
extensively on this list, but never via Austin.
Its an interesting connection you've made between the problems of
performativity and iteration / repetition. I'm not sure how to expand on
this within the confines of _Diff&Rep_ as I simply don't know it well
enough. I vaguely remember Austin finally having to appeal to some kind
of "good faith" in order to guarrantee performativity ("no, I wasn't
just acting"). I think Derrida and Deleuze would treat this kind of
appeal very differently. Derrida by saying that it simply doesn't settle
anything - just pushes a regress one step further back; but Deleuze's
take in _Diff&Rep_ would be very different: I'm thinking of his attack
on the notion of "good will" and "common sense" in _The Image of
Thought_ and how these are essentially political & State notions based
on the Same, rather than diff & rep - that beneath the glossy surface of
problem free "unaminity" of performance is a larval grumbling of
dissent.
It'd be worthwhile reading _Postulates of Linguistics_ if you haven't
already! as DnG engage explicitly with Austin. It doesn't mention
Limited Ink but if you take that as an attack on Intentional Realism
then I think that DnG would take the failure of Intentaional Realism as
given / obvious from everything else they've written. "The" point of
postulates of linguistics is partly the Austinian thesis of "how to do
things with words" but also "how (order) words do things with us". I
read it as trying to fulfill the Nietzschean project of an
"active-linguistics" a linguistics "on the side" of the speaker rather
than the listener which is why it deals with ordering, commanding,
instructing as the primary function of language and then finally,
fleetingly of the creative, plastic power of language i.e. the pass-word
... these are as they make clear two-sides of an inseparable "coin".
Jon
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the Derrida / Deleuze links or lack of them have been coverred
extensively on this list, but never via Austin.
Its an interesting connection you've made between the problems of
performativity and iteration / repetition. I'm not sure how to expand on
this within the confines of _Diff&Rep_ as I simply don't know it well
enough. I vaguely remember Austin finally having to appeal to some kind
of "good faith" in order to guarrantee performativity ("no, I wasn't
just acting"). I think Derrida and Deleuze would treat this kind of
appeal very differently. Derrida by saying that it simply doesn't settle
anything - just pushes a regress one step further back; but Deleuze's
take in _Diff&Rep_ would be very different: I'm thinking of his attack
on the notion of "good will" and "common sense" in _The Image of
Thought_ and how these are essentially political & State notions based
on the Same, rather than diff & rep - that beneath the glossy surface of
problem free "unaminity" of performance is a larval grumbling of
dissent.
It'd be worthwhile reading _Postulates of Linguistics_ if you haven't
already! as DnG engage explicitly with Austin. It doesn't mention
Limited Ink but if you take that as an attack on Intentional Realism
then I think that DnG would take the failure of Intentaional Realism as
given / obvious from everything else they've written. "The" point of
postulates of linguistics is partly the Austinian thesis of "how to do
things with words" but also "how (order) words do things with us". I
read it as trying to fulfill the Nietzschean project of an
"active-linguistics" a linguistics "on the side" of the speaker rather
than the listener which is why it deals with ordering, commanding,
instructing as the primary function of language and then finally,
fleetingly of the creative, plastic power of language i.e. the pass-word
... these are as they make clear two-sides of an inseparable "coin".
Jon
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