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Taking as a starting point a research experience in collaboration with two Mapuche interlocutors, this article explores learning derived from the proposal they were making to us: basically, embarking on the intersubjective, interepistemic and interexistential production of knowledge. Intersubjective, because the goal had to be to transform/complete our understandings and selves in and through the interaction. Interepistemic, to the extent that it had to open ourselves to recognize not so much other knowledge but other ways of knowing. Interexistential, since it would expose us to the opacity of certain ontological borders according to which the practice of conversation can, in its being done, involve --at least for some-- living human persons and non-human beings. On this basis, we aim to intervene in broader debates about certain mandates and extended conceptions of contemporary anthropological work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Outstanding education is a high-level policy narrative in England rehearsed by school leaders, politicians, policy-makers and inspectors alike. The 'legitimacy' of knowledge, performativity and discourse-based analysis are mobilised to examine outstanding. The paper explores how informants in the English state secondary education sector described and experienced outstanding. From examining policy documents and empirical data, the paper suggests that outstanding has become a performative tool 'hijacked' by inspection regimes. It concludes that, despite the informants' best efforts, the neoliberal and performative policy discourses which surround outstanding appear to increasingly wield a disproportionate, even tyrannical, influence upon the English education system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to relate the Biblical Revelation to the charisma of the Inspiration as a social and community dimension. In order to achieve it, the Author uses categories of Philosophy of Language, specially the concept of language's performativity or impressive dimension of the Word. The most important quoted author is Luis Alonso Schökel baside other thinkers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the notion of performativity as part of the movement against the notion of 'thinking' by René Descartes which is an argument of co-extensivity. The author points out that the notion of performativity names an approach that refuses to tie the fact that 'there is thinking' to identity or ontology. She adds that to speak of performativity in relation to the subject of subjectivity is to focus on the practices of this conditioned element within the various matrices by which it is sustained. The author quotes Judith Butler's thesis which interrogates differentiated subject formation within practices that sustain lines of power and power effects.