Teemu Paavolainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 9694687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teemu Paavolainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teemu |
| FAMILY NAME | Paavolainen |
| SIGNATURE | PAAVOLAINEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3868-2951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Performative Utopias
In an increasingly dystopian world, the notion of ‘utopia’ might seem all but obliterated, yet at the same time, it has become a productive concept for social theory and cultural practice. Joining many utopian revivalists who have addressed utopias as real, critical, minor, or sustainable, this essay makes the case that utopia could also be fruit-fully understood as a matter of performance, or ‘doing differently’—not in the sense of representing …
On the ‘Doing’ of ‘Something’
Starting off from its conflicting range of connotations – from the pejorative to the efficacious – the essay sets out to defend the notion of ‘performative protest’ as more than just ‘playing politics’, or protesting with explicitly performance-like elements. Instead, a more plural model of performativity is proposed, which would equally incorporate the more positive and negative conceptions of active subversion and passive submission, effective …
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On the ‘Doing’ of ‘Something’
Starting off from its conflicting range of connotations – from the pejorative to the efficacious – the essay sets out to defend the notion of ‘performative protest’ as more than just ‘playing politics’, or protesting with explicitly performance-like elements. Instead, a more plural model of performativity is proposed, which would equally incorporate the more positive and negative conceptions of active subversion and passive submission, effective …
Performative Utopias
In an increasingly dystopian world, the notion of ‘utopia’ might seem all but obliterated, yet at the same time, it has become a productive concept for social theory and cultural practice. Joining many utopian revivalists who have addressed utopias as real, critical, minor, or sustainable, this essay makes the case that utopia could also be fruit-fully understood as a matter of performance, or ‘doing differently’—not in the sense of representing …
Performative utterance (2 works) · Performativity (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 work) · Dramaturgy (1 work) · Dystopia (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Pejorative (1 work)