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The Spontaneous Performativity of Global Intertextuality

Philip Liste
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Philip Liste
Fulda University of Applied Sciences

Abstract

International Organizations (IOs) by their very practice contribute to the ongoing reconstruction of the international society. The paper starts from the assumption that a major aspect of this practice consists in the production of documents. What is important is that these descriptions of environmental events are mostly embedded in frames of a very specific organizational language. Description operates reconstruction of the outside within the inside. By way of this organizational practice, there emerges a web of organizational performativity. The paper addresses this web as a type of intertextuality—the intertextuality of global governance. Building upon this theoretical consideration of textual performativity, the paper aims to elaborate into conflictual characteristics of inter-organizational relations - regime-collisions - and their consequences for the "constitutionalization" of inter- and/or transnational relations.