The World According to LARP
The World According to LARP
Section titled “The World According to LARP”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Mary Harrington
- Full Title: The World According to LARP
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://unherd.com/2020/07/the-world-according-to-larp/
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Section titled “Highlights”- Strikingly, the word ‘performative’ has also mutated. Today, it isn’t used as Butler did, to mean “a performance that shapes reality”, but the opposite: an insincere performance for social kudos. So, for example, celebrity endorsements of social justice orthodoxies are often accused of being ‘performative’. It means much the same as ‘larping’, but with an added payload of cynicism. So where ‘LARPing’ means “playacting at something you wish you were”, ‘performative’ means “playacting at something you don’t really believe”.