non-performative

Blake can be seen as an imaginative argument — an argument mounted in works of imagination — against all non-performative styles of interpretation.

William Blake and the Study of Virtual Space: Adapting 'The Crystal Cabinet' to a New Medium 2005

Third, though consent is defined by its performative character, ancillary non-performative features naturally accompany it: consent also expresses the acceptability, or at least tolerability, of the government.

Legal Obligation and Authority Green, Leslie 2003

"Soap at MOCA is an attempt to both blur and define the lines between different disciplines, between life and art, between art and popular culture, and between representations of the self as both performative character and as non-performative self," commented James Franco. considers the possibility that "Lady Gaga herself is espousing a philosophical position that we ought to take seriously."

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

"Soap at MOCA is an attempt to both blur and define the lines between different disciplines, between life and art, between art and popular culture, and between representations of the self as both performative character and as non-performative self," commented James Franco. considers the possibility that "Lady Gaga herself is espousing a philosophical position that we ought to take seriously."

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

But contemporary readers are quite comfortable with the idea that there is no essentialist, non-performative self, that individuals are made up of the roles they play.

Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009