Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
@article{Barad2003PosthumanistPT, title={Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter}, author={Karen Barad}, journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society}, year={2003}, volume={28}, pages={801 - 831} }
L anguage has been granted too much power. The linguistic turn, the semiotic turn, the interpretative turn, the cultural turn: it seems that at every turn lately every “thing”—even materiality—is turned into a matter of language or some other form of cultural representation. The ubiquitous puns on “matter” do not, alas, mark a rethinking of the key concepts (materiality and signification) and the relationship between them. Rather, it seems to be symptomatic of the extent to which matters of…
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