Abstract
For a number of years, new material feminists have been developing new theoretical tools, new modes of conceptual analysis, and new ethical frameworks. Object-oriented ontology, part of the speculative realism "movement," has been engaged in something similar. Yet these endeavors have often taken place in "parallel universes," despite sharing - or at least colliding around - a range of somewhat similar ontological and epistemological commitments. Composed as a diffractive musing encounter, the article brings Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway, already a "foundational" text for new material feminism, into an encounter with a speculative realist text of the same "foundational" status, Harman's The Quadruple Object. The article develops a notion of diffractive musing as embodied, sensory struggle which instantiates intellectual generosity as a mode of critique.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 201-212 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 3 Mar 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2016 |
Keywords
- critique
- diffraction
- musing
- new material feminism
- speculative realism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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Carol Taylor
- Department of Education - Professor of Higher Education and Gender
- Centre for Qualitative Research
- Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change
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