Performativity cannot justify granting language absolute power

Evidence

But performativity, today taken to extremes in academic discourse, and used in confusingly different ways, is not a license to accord language an absolute power. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the reader’s standing concern about how ‘performativity’ gets abused across disciplines — connects to Judith Butler reception and Schmittian sovereignty debates. — connects to: Terror is the performativity system’s enforcement by threatening exclusion from the language game — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 441; No metadiscourse can unify or totalize language games — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 286
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 46