Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon
Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon
Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon
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dissent to develop opportunities to reflect up<strong>on</strong> and to disengage from what I have<br />
designated as the rumbling <strong>on</strong> <strong>performativity</strong>. There is willingness to interrupt. To<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinue, more and different bricoleurs with an ir<strong>on</strong>ic touch could be needed. Starting<br />
to reflect with more and different members of staff would make them visible. Although<br />
I doubt whether our Minister and State Secretary of Educati<strong>on</strong> will like that as<br />
the way c<strong>on</strong>structive dissenting voices is organized as it may harm the fulfilment of<br />
the performance agreements.<br />
7.5 Movement of thought: intermezzo regarding two of the<br />
questi<strong>on</strong>s asked<br />
In reflecting up<strong>on</strong> my c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> to the interacti<strong>on</strong>s the subject of corporate jestership<br />
emerged as a potential indicati<strong>on</strong> for the way I do my work. In due course the idea<br />
of a corporate jestership was aband<strong>on</strong>ed, paradoxically as a result of the researchprocess<br />
which brought the subject of corporate jestership to mind. If ever asked if my<br />
research provoked movement of thought, I assume that the road taken from a corporate<br />
jestership towards being a bricoleur with a touch of ir<strong>on</strong>y, illustrates perfectly<br />
some movements of my thought.<br />
At the same time it is remarkable that my research and my participating in several<br />
discussi<strong>on</strong>s enabled different discussi<strong>on</strong>s and changed the way others involved reflect<br />
up<strong>on</strong> the UAS. Writing, reflecting and discussing of my research enabled discussi<strong>on</strong>s<br />
about an elusive subject such as dissent. Not <strong>on</strong>ly my thoughts moved, but in due<br />
course somehow the thoughts of the others involved moved too. My research enabled<br />
to discuss and to reflect about dissent and interrupti<strong>on</strong>, enabled ‘many minds’ to be<br />
bothered by these topics.<br />
If beforehand I would have had in mind to provoke discussi<strong>on</strong>s about dissent or interrupti<strong>on</strong>,<br />
I would have to admit that I had planned to undertake some classical acti<strong>on</strong><br />
research, aiming at solving a problem.<br />
However, I did not plan to solve the problem of an apparent lack of dissent or a lack of<br />
interruptive reflecti<strong>on</strong>s. These topics emerged, although I realize that what actually<br />
emerged also depended <strong>on</strong> my taken for granted assumpti<strong>on</strong>s. Without my being<br />
present, discussi<strong>on</strong>s might have taken another course.<br />
I c<strong>on</strong>clude that my research underpins <strong>on</strong>e of the noti<strong>on</strong>s of a complexity approach<br />
when it is stated that interacti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> a micro-level evolve into unintended social<br />
patterns. Neither I nor the others involved predicted that somewhere in 2013 we<br />
would be discussing the topics of dissent and interrupti<strong>on</strong>. But now, it is <strong>on</strong> the agenda.<br />
Moreover, my research underpins the c<strong>on</strong>cept of transformative causality as it<br />
clarifies that history - to be found in for instance my taken for granted assumpti<strong>on</strong>s, in<br />
the history of the UAS, and in the history of governmental educati<strong>on</strong>al policy – is<br />
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