the ephemerality of cyberspace can prove to be downright frightening, as I have personally discovered.
for - quote - emphemerality of cyberspace can be downright frightening - Steven M. Rosen - Indyweb leverages IPFS CID (Content Identification) addressing to combat emphermerality through the affordance of provenance
Broadcast messages a ephemeral from the WS server point of view.
Performativity, properly construed, is not an invitation to turneverything (including material bodies) into words; on the contrary, per-formativity is precisely a contestation of the excessive power granted tolanguage to determine what is real.
Mulling this over: words can, in a sense, be material--we can record them on paper or other tangible things. Letters are symbols but they have narrowly defined meanings. Letters combined can become words that represent material things.
Performativity is, by its very nature, ephemeral, even if it is in some sense material (bodily, as discussed above). The premise, then, seems to be that if discursive practices are performative, they naturally challenge power because power can only be obtained upon something longer-lasting. Or, alternatively, that performativity challenges power because the understood meaning(s) cannot be represented by words.
Doesn't the assumption that words have power act to give words more power?