February 2012
8 posts
Performative Utterances:
philphys:
“Utterances can be found, satisfying these conditions, yet such that
A. they do not ‘describe’ or ‘report’ or constate anything at all, are not ‘true or false’; and
B. the uttering of the sentence is, or is a part of, the doing of an action, which again would not normally be described as saying something.”
-J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words
Wow, this brought me back to my...
“I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to...”
– Marcel Proust (via philphys)
This is how I’ve begun to live lately, and it’s incredibly liberating. The flip side is that it means you are constantly aware that you will die one day, and there’s no way of sweet-talking your way around it (my solution to everything else).
Not only do I live and work in China....
….and am currently on my vacation. But I also have pneumonia :/ This is why I haven’t been and won’t be updating Tumblr for a while.
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via philphys)