Austin’s performance, evanescent speech acts and philosophers who laugh

Abstract

Here I experiment a way of dialogue with some forms of transmission of knowledge. While constantly debating J. L. Austin and his commentators, Kanavillil Rajagopalan turns his own work into a performance that relies on its constitutive laughter, a mode of thinking that dwells on writings in which its (un)knowledge serves, chiefl y, to question and to convert itself into a questioning knowledge.