Performative Discourse

Discourse is a specific series of representation and practices through which meanings are produced, identities constituted, social relations established, and political and ethical outcome made more or less possible. This is how people understand and communicate everything and nothing exists outside of discourse. Individuals who use this concept say that everything is language, and that there is no reality so because of their linguistic idealism, they are unable to take political positions and defend an ethical stance.

When trying to understand discourse as involving ideals and the materials, the linguistic and the non-linguistic, the discourses become performative. Performative means that discourses constitute the objection of which they

speak, an example being a state having multiple discourses about immigration policy, military strategy, economic actions, and cultural debate. The meanings and idea behind these discourses are performative. It is from this idea that discourses are able to move away from the idea that they must rely on social construction toward materialization.
Upon moving away from social constructions towards materialization discourse is then stabilized over time and produces the effect of boundary, fixity, and surface. So, in the end discourse is no longer the concept the subject to describe and object but instead is what forms both the subject and the object.