Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto-Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation

Abstract

This article uses an actual scholarly encounter in order to work out the feminist methodological strengths of diffraction. I meditate on the current state of affairs in contemporary theory circles, where new materialisms and OOO are parting ways. In order not to meditate from a disembodied location and fall into the trap of reflection, new materialisms and OOO have been sought with/in my body, where posthuman forces rule and a generative text of Chantal Chawaf was encountered…before I knew it.