"Nature" thus faces the dilemma of being reconstructed performatively.

I begin this text performatively, by inviting you to think through my re-staging of several scenes.

Of course, the stability of gender as a concept was in doubt well before anyone used words like "performatively."

In the same way, interlocutors often choose to performatively create their own linguistic style to suit the self-image they desire.

The narrative seemingly confirms fatalism in order to illustrate the feeling of entrapment that ideology can performatively create.

Butler notes that "no term or statement can function performatively without the accumulating and dissimulating historicity of force" (227).

To Fineman, the poem's initial self-citation is just one example of how the "poem's own rhetoricity is... performatively implicated in the rape it reports".

A test for whether a verb is being used performatively is the possible insertion of hereby: I hereby apologize; The committee hereby thanks you.

On the face of it, a statement of solipsism is - at least performatively - self-defeating, because a statement assumes another person to whom the statement is made.

Afterwards the exhibition was the inspriation for the films The Hidden Conference I-III, which were performatively filmed in various museum depots.

In fact, the relationship itself between the diviner and his basket is performatively cast in strongly sexual terms: the diviner is to the basket as a husband to his wife.

However, philosophy merely performatively legitimates the decisional structure which, as already noted, it is unable to fully grasp, in contrast to non-philosophy which collapses the distinction (present in philosophy) between theory and action.

The patriarchal triangular relationship of a father, a mother and an inheriting eldest son frequently form the dynamic and emotional narratives of popular culture and are enacted performatively in rituals of courtship and marriage.

An affirmative action bake sale is a type of campus protest event used by student groups to performatively criticize affirmative action policies by charging students different prices depending on which social or racial group they belong to.

In her book "Gender Trouble," Butler observes: "There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; ... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results."

" Likewise, he notes that "clergy blessing governmental ceremonies are performatively invoking divine aid by their very presence but are likely to pray in terms so general as not to be specific to their own religion's symbol system."

Against this view (and in defence of her thesis that gender is performatively enacted), Butler argues that, in order to be approached this way, the concept of sexual difference in Lacanian theory must be "emptied out" of positive content, such as the biological difference between males and females.