Many bills seek to address real issues. Many seek to please political constituencies, align with popular trends or repay political debts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most performative behavior doesn’t come from bad intentions—it comes from wanting to be seen, validated, or liked a little too ...

The contents of this article are a pragmatic, simplified, and adapted version of John Austin’s (1962) work on speech act theory (SAT), first presented at Oxford University between 1951 and 1954 and at ...

From my letters, readers can tell I’m a conservative. I try to stay up to date with the news. Watching news on TV is always a treat: Do I stick with the “trusted” networks or take a wild ride through ...

The tote-slinging, matcha-drinking, maybe-reading caricature of the performative male is alive and well in New York City. As I write this article in the back of a cafe on the Lower East Side, ...

Bangladesh has been seeing cases of sting operations, viralisation, and sensationalisation. The accused are not seen as individual offenders having committed specific acts of transgression requiring ...

When I’m at my wits’ end trying to come up with ways to convince my friends that we should go bar hopping, crash a friend-of-a-friend’s birthday party, or check out the new not-so-secret speakeasy ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The performative male: we know them, we love them and we love ...

Jillian Sunderland has previously received funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grant and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Award. University of Toronto provides ...

Every workplace seems to have one. A manager who goes silent for days, then suddenly reappears in the team chat the moment senior leadership checks in. They’ll swoop in to take credit for the work ...