Performativity and the event: enacting a philosophy of difference

What is performativity? In this paper I set out to encounter this question by intimating the directions we are forced to consider when thinking throug h the performative. In centring my arguments within the corpus of Deleuze's philosophy of difference I advocate academic production as creative of tho ught. This is to suggest a performative thinking and doing that unfolds our way of looking at our social, corporeal, human dramas and the technologies by which we feel able to analyse something, and in so doing, enact its con stitution. Coursing underneath this issue of performativity is the problema tisation of the term of the subject-what if the event was more important? W hat do we understand of the event if not through a sense of subjectivity? I nsinuated within the confrontation with performativity are fundamental impl ications associated with the timing of something as it happens, the central ity of the material and visceral body to this, and the settings through whi ch events take place. Arguing through this triality I extract three symptom atic themes of performativity: that it speaks of irretrievability, indeterm inacy, and excess. Ethically, and in conclusion, emphasis is placed on the empiricism of life in its doing-the present moment of immediate uncertain h appening as we are continually enacted out of 'knowing' how to go on within concrete, material circumstances.