Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities

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¹ Donna Haraway, ‘SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far’, Pilgrim Award Acceptance Comments, 2011, <http://people.ucsc.edu/haraway/Files/PilgrimAcceptance-Haraway.pdf> [30/01/2014].

² Donna Haraway, ‘The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others’ in The Haraway Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp.63–124.

³ Donna Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan^©_Meets_ OncoMouse^TM (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), p.16.

⁴ Donna Haraway, ‘The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others’, p.64.

⁵ Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).

⁶ See Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway, pp.71–131, 247–352; also Niels Bohr, ‘Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics’ in Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (New York: Dover, 2010), pp.32–66.

⁷ Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, p.106.

⁸ Vicki Kirby, Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), p.76. The potent/ial effects of such shifts in theory, method and praxis have recently been also explored in Stacey Alaimo and Susan Hekman, eds, Material Feminisms (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2008); Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin, New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies, Open Humanities Press, 2012.

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Birgit Mara Kaiser

Birgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special interest in aesthetics, affectivity and subject-formation. She is the author of Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville (SUNY Press, 2011) and editor (with Lorna Burns) of Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze. Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), and Singularity and Transnational Poetics (forthcoming with Routledge), and her work appeared in International Journal for Francophone Studies and Textual Practice. She has also co-founded the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica (www.terracritica.net). Email: [email protected]

Kathrin Thiele

Kathrin Thiele is assistant professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is trained as a critical theorist with research expertise in continental philosophy, feminist theories of difference and posthuman(ist) studies. Her current research explores feminist cosmo-politics from a (post)humanist perspective, and with it she aims at the revitalization of critical analyses within the (new) humanities. She has authored The Thought of Becoming. Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Life (2008), and edited (with Katrin Trüstedt) HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell (2009) and (with Maria Muhle) Biopolitische Konstellationen (2011). Her articles have appeared in Women: A Cultural Review and Deleuze Studies. She is also co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica (www.terracritica.net). Email: [email protected]