for - performativity - definition

definition - performativity - In the context of futures studies, performativity explains how visions of the future shape and coordinate social action in the present that results in the construction of the future vision. - Performativity converts the fiction into the nonfiction, the imaginary into the real - There are four aspects to performativity: - sociology of expectations - sociologies of affect - collective imagination - material-semiotic approaches // question - what does this mean?//