| Summary: | This paper considers epistemological implications of the concept of
performative, starting from the elaborate conception provided by Judith
Butler’s theories. The primary postulate of this work is that various
interpretations of the performative, with their semiotic shifting from the
notions of truth-evaluability and the descriptive nature of meaning, form a
line of abandoning traditional epistemological distinction between subject
and object. Through other semiotic concepts which will be presented and
analysed, this line reveals the key epistemological issues in the light of
semiology, while Judith Butler’s concept of performativity is viewed as a
possible outcome of this course of semiology of knowledge, resulting in final
transcending of the category of subject.
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