O performatywności biżuterii Żeliwna biżuteria patriotyczna
On the performativity of jewellery. Cast iron patriotic jewellery

Summary/Abstract: John L. Austin’s 1960s speech act theory marked an important turn in the study of performativity and causality. Jacques Derrida in 1972 pointed out that not only speech but also writing has performative, causal powers of action. At the end of the 1990s, attention was drawn to the causality of things (objects) as active creators of social life, non-human entities and the induced changes created by them in cooperation with humans. Among objects, jewellery has a particular causal power. In this article, I propose to address the practices associated with cast-iron patriotic jewellery, created between 1806 and 1814 in the wave of patriotic exultation in Prussia’s war against Napoleon, exploring the effects exerted on the spectators viewing it, the results and the changes it caused in social and cultural reality.

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