ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the criticism justifies rethinking economic theories' social influence within a different theoretical framework. It also shows that all the criticisms referenced point towards a blind spot of performativist sociology as it empties its ontology of structuring social entities, sets of conventions imposing agents, therefore precluding thoughts of integrating a number of possibilities of performativity failures. The criticisms of performativist theory focus mainly on its refusal to adopt an offensive posture in the face of neo-classical economics. The criticisms produced by sociology of social knowledge supporters towards actor-network theory may nevertheless appear to be partly unfair. The various criticisms call into question the social ontology carried by the theory of performativity. The work of the philosopher John Searle will provide a first approximation of a new approach to performativity. The chapter describes the link between the fundamental characteristics of performativist sociology and the criticisms levelled at it.
