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Critics of performative writing have described it, in practice, as: self-indulgent ; insular ; politically neutred due to its tiny elite audience and its neo-romantic individualism ; obscurantist ; often bearing only a loose relationship to the works of art it claims to be about ; and dependent on the funding ( of universities and public arts funding ) of the very state that it claims to be against.

Also that, when taught, it often paradoxically expects students to reveal personal truths and use experimental forms within a strict classroom regimen of grades, lesson attendance and exams.

It can generally be seen to follow the pattern of much modernist writing, in that it seeks to create complex new literary approaches in order to seal off ' high art culture ' from the attention of ordinary people and from a mass culture.