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 Just as well this kind of thing could never happen in a corporate environment.
-“Performative” is a voguish word, and if the learned author thinks she’s discovered something new — that administrators manage [[second-order derivatives]] and proxies of their political problems rather than engaging in the political problems themselves, she would do herself a favour by reading {{author|James C. Scott}} or {{author|Jane Jacobs}} — these ideas have been around for seventy or more years — but ''since'' its fashionable, and since it is bang-on the money, let”s go with it.
+“Performative” is a voguish word, and if the learned author thinks she’s discovered something new — that administrators manage [[second-order derivative]]s and [[Proxy|proxies]] of their political problems rather than engaging in the political problems themselves — she would do herself a favour by reading {{author|James C. Scott}}, {{author|Jane Jacobs}} and others who have been articulating these ideas for seventy or more years — but ''since'' its fashionable, and since it ''is'' bang-on the money, let’s go with it.
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