Beschreibung:
Diffraction -proposes a new understanding of difference beyond binaries. Reflecting on the term's implications and potentials, the book pursues new routes for our onto-epistemological and ethical responses to a fundamentally relational and entangled world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.
Preface Introduction - Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities 1. Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart 2. Diffractive Propositions: Reading Alfred North Whitehead with Donna Haraway and Karen Barad 3. Ethos of Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics 4. Ecce Homo Sexual: Ontology and Eros in the Age of Incompleteness and Entanglement 5. Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto- Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation 6. Diffracted Waves and World Literature 7. Diffraction, Handwriting and Intra-Mediality in Louise Paillé's Livres-livres 8. Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy