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Austin's performance, evanescent speech acts and philosophers who laugh

ABSTRACT

Here I experiment a way of dialogue with some forms of transmission of knowledge. While constantly debating J. L. Austin and his commentators, Kanavillil Rajagopalan turns his own work into a performance that relies on its constitutive laughter, a mode of thinking that dwells on writings in which its (un)knowledge serves, chiefly, to question and to convert itself into a questioning knowledge.

Key-words:
Kanavillil Rajagopalan; John L. Austin; Performance; Laughter/Humor

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