Klasyfiksacja w Teorii Feministycznej

Abstract

In her article, Iris van der Tuin engages in a discussion concerning the way categorization and classification work and organize theoretical inquiries. The author elaborates closely on classification of feminist epistemology introduced by Sandra Harding in her book The Science Question, where the three strands are recognized: “feminist empiricism”, “feminist standpoint theory”, and “feminist postmodernism”. Van der Tuin offers the term classifixation to demonstrate that classification is not a neutral mediator and that the way scholars establish canon matters epistemologically and politically. With her method of “jumping-generations” van der Tuin presents new materialisms and how new materialist cartographies work to overcome dualist thinking structures.