ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores a set of theoretical issues related to the way in which social worlds are performed; by this she mean that social worlds have no existence outside of practice and performance - however much they seem to be systematic in some sense or other. Her argument will start in a discussion of the eventness of being, with a view to identifying social agency and its temporality. The author proceeds to a discussion of the illusion of wholeness that pervades social life, with a view to establishing the role played by anticipation; after that she discusses creativity as an accordion of meaning. Social life and individual action are closely intertwined with anticipation and creativity. The author concludes with some intimations of imagination as the link between action and history in a more general sense.
