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Natascia Tosel
Modelling Institutions, Instituting Models
The Juridification of Politics and the Performative Power of Naming
Starting from Deleuze’s claim that institutions perform a social activity of creating and imposing models of conduct, the chapter analyses the various ways in which this modelling activity has been conceptualized in political theory. It identifies three main paradigms of the performativity of institutions available in the literature: the sovereign, the subversive, and properly instituting performativity. The chapter argues that the latter, wherein models are construed as previsions of the world, enables a better understanding of the current juridification of politics.
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Modelling Institutions, Instituting Models
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The Juridification of Politics and the Performative Power of Naming
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Natascia Tosel
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Starting from Deleuze’s claim that institutions perform a social activity of creating and imposing models of conduct, the chapter analyses the various ways in which this modelling activity has been conceptualized in political theory. It identifies three main paradigms of the performativity of institutions available in the literature: the sovereign, the subversive, and properly instituting performativity. The chapter argues that the latter, wherein models are construed as previsions of the world, enables a better understanding of the current juridification of politics.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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20 May 2025
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institution
Bourdieu
Butler
juridification
politics
performativity
sovereignty
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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241
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262
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Breaking and Making Models, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel, Cultural Inquiry, 33 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 241–62
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