History is littered with events that technically happened, but which were performative in at least some sense: they occurred, but that occurrence was optimized for the dissemination of a message or to back a larger purpose.
The signing of treaties after military conflicts, for instance, tend to be this type of event because the conflicts themselves are g…
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