Geoperformativity Immanence, performance and the earth

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Notes

¹ See, for example, Boundas and Olkowski (1994); or Puchner (2002).

² This last statement is important in that it indicates the way in which thought and concepts themselves become impervious to change in these Platonic and immediately Postplatonic schema, thereby arresting the emergence of new concepts.

³ Deleuze and Guattari explain that: ‘Every milieu is vibratory, in other words, a block of spacetime constituted by the periodic repetition of the component.… The notion of the milieu is not unitary: not only does the living thing continually pass from one milieu to another, but the milieus pass into one another; they are essentially communicating. The milieus are open to chaos, which threatens them to exhaustion or intrusion. Rhythm is the milieu's answer to chaos’ (Deleuze and Guattari 1987: 313).

⁴ This production, characterized as it is by its differentiated and non-representational iterability, can be understood to be a culmination of performativity's journey from early conceptual roots in J. L. Austin's linguistic theory, then in the body with Judith Butler, and finally into the material and immaterial processual relationality and generativity of immanent systems.