Performance All the Way Down

25 May 2024 - 15 Aug 2025
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    • book that somehow marries the idea of performativity (in the trendy gender studies sense) and biology. The "all the way down" means that one thinks of the agency of various biological subsystems (organs, cells, genes) not so much as selfish (in the Dawkins sense) but as selfing, performing themselves into being.
    • Note: haven't even really read the book yet, just dabbled around in it.
    • I picked up this book in the midst of my little obsession with free will Choose your own review. Surely whatever the merits of this book it is at least offers a fresh take.