Can reading really be performative? I see this get thrown here all the time but enjoying literature is really a comfy inward experience.
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 thingsOther cave members say Grug and other men no read the runesBut then when Grug read something, he called "performative"Grug no can win, if Grug read, he performative, otherwise Grug is called dumb for no readMake 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 outi wish my phone entertained me but time goes quicker when i'm just in my headi'm certain i look strange to others though
"Whether you levitate or bend spoons...Extra! Extra! Read all about me!"
>>25337764>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 mindHas anyone here even read JL Austin??
>>25337764If 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.
>>25338433Is Austin cool? I mean of course he is. I read him before he was cool. Keep up anon
>>25337764Owning a stack of books you have not read and posting your stack on 4jizz 4 upvotes is performative
>>25338246Nah, Adam Smith had imaginary friends and was so stuck in his head that he fell in a ditch when walking a long distance.
>>25337764>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?
>>25338460truke
>>25338451>t.
>>25337764>start with the classicsnow 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?
>>25339539They called me that because I did start with the Greeks. >>25338699 leave me alone. Ahh
>>25339155Look 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".
>>25339805kek
>>25337857>performative fellatio
>>25339805>swinging the bag in a centrifugal manner
>>25338290No soap, radio!
>>25339805it'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
>>25338433How to Do Things With WordsI feel your pain anon
>>25337764Yeah. It definitely can be.
>>25340164best not be any lintts
>>25340276>disgustingly educatedIm starting to see this more often.
>>25340458What does it even mean? You are so educated that people are repelled by it?
>>25337764leave 4chanits shit
>>25338433No but I do have his book and I'm looking to wander in the direct pretty soon with pragmatics and semantics.
>tfw reading books like pic related on public transport so that if they glance at the page they think they’re having a strokeMy necromodernist tome beats your feminist autofiction every day of the week. If you’re not performatively schizomaxxing in public you’re doing it wrong
>>25337764I 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
>>25337764We're in 2026 nonny, everything is performative.Give me a (you) if you agree!
>>25340808Academic validation."Look I'm so smart, professor Doofenshmirtz gave me an A in Industrial Psychology Marketing 101"
>>25343392PERRY THE PERFORMATIVE PLATYPUS?
>>25343392>>25343413>mean age of this board: 27Maybe its 23..
>>25337764All reading is performative
>>25337764Of course. See: Moby Dick whale facts "enjoyers"
>>25337764The female hivemind on social media will complain about anything but insofar as performative reading exists it's reading status-symbol books in public. "Look at me, ladies, I'm reading 'She Comes First.' Look how much I care about your wellbeing in bed." "Look at me foids I'm reading Meditations. I'm so based and redpilled." I don't think it's a real issue at scale though, and if you're just reading for pleasure and happen to be in public no one should care.
>>25337764yes, i know smeone who reads aloud fucking spenser in the pub to himself, its embarrassing. he has no personality outside of old books.
I intentionally remove the cover from the books I read in public so I don't make the illiterate plebs feel bad.
>>25342465I’ve been noticing your stream of-conscious ramblings all over /lit/ lately. Maybe if you used a punctuation mark here and there I might actually bother reading whatever the fuck it is you’re talking about.
>>25337764I am only performative to braindead retards on the internet, in public I wear a hoody and read with no jacket because I am very ugly.
>>25337764ITT: I will now post my opinion to gain guaranteed acceptance and validation from my fellow men here: All men who read books to gain acceptance or validation from women are performative readers, as in not real readers.
I was once in an airport with time to spare, so I ordered a beer and began writing down the details of a cryptographic/anonymous voting system I wanted to build in a notebook, and everyone was just staring at me. I only wrote 3 pages before finishing my beer and fucking off.I hate normies so damn much
>>25337764everything is performative when marriage is illegal and your most intimate moments are performative to try to keep some bitch in your life for another day
>>25339539yeah well if you dont understand socrates and aquinas then youre a stupid niggerfaggot
>>25344642Is this America?
>>25345744yes. admittedly, I am 6'6" with an attractive face and hair, so that draws attention to me as well.
Ahh the fear of being perceived by others is strong
Once, as I came back from a used book store, it started to rain real hard, so I sat in a bar and started a book from my freshly acquired stack while sipping cider. A tranny who was looking at me came closer, and started asking question about the book.>If people want to, they'll think anything you do in public is for them
>>25345890Was she cute
>>25337802Talking about books you've read for spurious reasons or you haven't even read too
>>25346035He was a bit taller than (i'm 6'1) me, with a sharp face and dressed in a tight black dress.I tried to be polite though
