Book by Birgit Mara Kaiser
Routledge (SPIB Series, republication of Parallax Special Issue 20.3 2014), 2018
Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the resu... more Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning. In this sense, therefore, phenomena (including texts, cultural agents, or life forms) are the results of their relational, onto-epistemological entanglements and not individual entities that separately pre-exist their joint becoming. As such, ‘diffraction’ proposes a new understanding of difference: no longer a dualist understanding, but one going beyond binaries. Diffraction is about patterns, constellations, relationalities.
From this angle, the book explores ‘diffraction’, which has begun to impact critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new) materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used without further reflection upon its implications or potentials. Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our experience of the world as relational and radically immanent; because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement, our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an in-depth consideration of ‘diffraction’ as a quantum understanding of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.
Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (meson press), 2017
This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to inter... more This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate change and neoliberalism? Think we must! To get to the symptoms, the book’s 38 terms ranging from affect and affirmation to world and work provide the reader with a critical toolbox to be continued. Negativity, judgment and opposition as modes of critique have run out of steam. Critique as an attitude and a manner of enquiry has not.
Routledge, 2015
Over the past decade ‘singularity’ has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging ... more Over the past decade ‘singularity’ has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its various implications, proposing to explore the term for its specific potential in the study of literature.
Singularity and Transnational Poetics brings together scholars working in the fields of literary and cultural studies, translation studies, and transnational literatures. The volume’s central concern is to explore singularity as a conceptual tool for the comparative study of contemporary literatures beyond national frameworks, and by implication, as a tool to analyze human existence. Contributors explore how singularity might move our conceptions of cultural identity from prevailing frameworks of self/other toward the premises of being as ‘singular plural’. Through a close reading of transnational literatures from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and South Africa, this collection offers a new approach to reading literature that will challenge a reader’s established notions of identity, individuality, communicability, and social cohesion.
Palgrave , Jun 2012
A timely appraisal of two major schools of contemporary criticism, postcolonialism and Deleuzian ... more A timely appraisal of two major schools of contemporary criticism, postcolonialism and Deleuzian philosophy, Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and theory. It brings together prominent scholars from the field of Deleuze studies such as Réda BensmaIa, Bruce Janz and Gregg Lambert, some of whom explore the possibilities of Deleuze for postcolonial literatures for the first time in this collection, and established postcolonial critics including David Huddart and Nick Nesbitt, who examine the relationship between different postcolonial literary writers and the Deleuzian concepts of becoming, minor literature, singularity and the virtual. Responding to one of the most trenchant critiques of postcolonialism and Deleuze in recent years, Peter Hallward's Absolutely Postcolonial, the essays showcased in this collection demonstrate that despite the criticisms that have followed the poststructuralist-inspired postcolonialism of the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, it is through the philosophy of Deleuze that the revisionary force of postcolonial literature for society and the imagination, politics and aesthetics may be reconceived anew. Where postcolonial studies to date has been primarily concerned with the politics and analysis of representation, Deleuze's work focuses on difference, immanence, expression, and becoming, all of which problematise representation as a logic closely bound to 'identity'. Yet, beyond these apparent incompatibilities, this collection argues that at a fundamental level Deleuze's commitment to a philosophy of difference without binary divisions and 'othering', his imagining of a new understanding of the relationship between past, present and future, as well as the value of his notions of becoming and the virtual, offer a set of critical concepts that, when applied to postcolonial theory and literatures, inspire a rethinking of the key issues that have come to dominate the field. Employing Deleuze in the study of postcolonial literatures, this collection, on the one hand, reinvigorates a mode of analysis at a time at which it is increasingly subject to criticism and re-evaluation, and, on the other, to make more visible questions and issues that have been little explored by Deleuze scholars.
Table of Content
Introduction: Navigating Differential Futures; (Un)making Colonial Pasts; L.Burns & B.M.Kaiser
PART I: DETERITORIALIZING DELEUZE, RETHINKING POSTCOLONIALISM
Forget Deleuze; B.B.Janz
The Bachelor-Machine and The Postcolonial Writer; G.Lambert
The World With(out) Others, or How to Unlearn the Desire for the Other; K.Thiele
Edward Said Between Singular and Specific; D.Huddart
Deleuze, Hallward, and the Transcendental Analytic of Relation; N.Nesbitt
PART II: THE SINGULARITY OF POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
The Singularities of Postcolonial Literature: Preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib's 'Northern Trilogy'; B.M.Kaiser
Postcolonialism Beyond the Colonized and the Colonizer: Caribbean Writing as Postcolonial 'Health'; L.Burns
Becoming-animal, Becoming-political in Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot Entêté; R.Bensmaia, translated by P.Krus
Revolutionizing Pleasure in Writing: Subversive Desire and Micropolitical Affects in Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads; M.Marinkova
Undercurrents and the Desert(ed): Negarestani, Tournier and Deleuze Map the Polytics of a 'New Earth'; R.Dolphijn
Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature—H... more Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature—Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten—in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety of “simpletons” that populate the writings of Kleist and Melville. These figures are not entirely ignorant, or stupid, but simple. Their simplicity is a way of thinking, one that Birgit Mara Kaiser suggests is affective thinking. Kaiser avers that Kleist and Melville are experimenting in their texts with an affective mode of thinking, and thereby continue a key line within eighteenth-century aesthetics: the relation of rationality and sensibility. Through her analyses, she offers an outline of what thinking can look like if we take affectivity into account.
Special Issue by Birgit Mara Kaiser
philoSOPHIA (edited with Kathrin Thiele), 2018
contributions:
Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique, De... more contributions:
Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique, Denise Ferreira da Silva
Originary Humanicity: Locating Anthropos, Vicki Kirby
What Is It Like to Be a Human? Sylvia Wynter on Autopoiesis, Max Hantel
Humanism’s Secret Shadow: The Construction of Black Gender/Sexuality in Frantz Fanon and Hortense Spillers, William M. Paris
If You Do Well, Carry! The Difference of the Humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger, Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele
Parallax (edited with Kathrin Thiele), Jul 2014
Mission Statement: Diffraction evidences the physical phenomenon of interference of waves or part... more Mission Statement: Diffraction evidences the physical phenomenon of interference of waves or particles, which as a result of their interference form a new pattern. This insight from quantum physics into the entangled, situated, and relational behavior of matter was taken up by the feminist thinker Donna Haraway in Modest_Witness@Second _Millenium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseTM (1997) where she notes that “diffraction patterns record the history of interaction, interference, reinforcement, difference. Diffraction is about heterogeneous history, not about originals […] a narrative, graphic, psychological, spiritual, and political technology for making a consequential difference” (273). Highlighting new pattern formations as a consequence of inescapably entangled matter-realities, diffraction has begun to impact recent critical theories, esp. new materialist feminisms (Barad 2007; Kirby 2011) and debates where non-Cartesian ways of thinking affectivity, subjectivity, and community are at stake (e.g. Ettinger 2006; Glissant 2009; Haraway 2008; Nancy 1997, 2000). This proliferation of diffraction (or its derivatives “diffracted” and “diffractive”) indicates that the term has productively migrated into the humanities, where it permits an understanding of the world as relational, entangled, and radically immanent, and allows to rethink difference beyond binaries.
If we start from the materialism of an immanent universe and its production of entangled lives and histories, our conceptions of self and other, of culture and nature, of cultural and sexual difference, and of our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries can be rethought. When exploring these units as patterns emerging from “entangled relationalities” (Barad 74), as patterns continuously effected in-and-by their encounters and intra-actions, we move toward a critical practice that departs from knowledge-production as “reflection”, that is as the activity of a reasoning subject at a distance from the examined (supposedly pre-existing and stable) objects. In this vein, diffraction is also practiced as a reading strategy that is based on the relational nature of phenomena, treating them as ‘agencies’ that emerge through relationality and intra-action, and are ontologically inseparable from their involvements, co-emergences, and differentiations. We invite papers from all fields within the humanities that explore/employ the notion of diffraction in order to develop a critical toolbox for the study of our contemporary worldings – beyond apparent kinship and linearly evolved filiation, and in view of our naturecultural complexities and co-dependencies. Diffraction permits us to rethink the units of analysis and elaborate a vocabulary more apt to address the complexity of our contemporary world – not only as interactivity on a global scale, but as “intra-activity in its differential mattering” (Barad 141).
References
Barad, Karen (2007) Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham/London: Duke)
Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg (2006) The Matrixial Borderspace (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
Glissant, Édouard (2009) Philosophie de la Relation (Paris: Gallimard)
Haraway, Donna (1997) Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_ OncoMouseTM (New York/London: Routledge)
___ (2008) When Species Meet (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press)
Kirby, Vicky (2011) Quantum Anthropologies. Life at Large (Durham/London: Duke University Press)
Nancy, Jean-Luc (1997) The Sense of the World (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press)
___ (2000) Being Singular Plural (Stanford: Stanford University Press)
Article by Birgit Mara Kaiser
philoSOPHIA (with Kathrin Thiele), 8.1, 2018
philoSOPHIA (with Kathrin Thiele and Bracha L. Ettinger) 8.1, 2018
Memory after Humanism (Parallax Special Issue, ed. by S. Knittel/K. Driscoll), 2017
Gender: Laughter. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2017
edited by Bettina Papenburg, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to te... more It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories. 1
Leaving the country. It was an obsession, a kind of madness that ate at him day and night: how co... more Leaving the country. It was an obsession, a kind of madness that ate at him day and night: how could he get out, how could he escape this humiliation? Leaving, abandoning this land that wants nothing more to do with its children, turning your back on such a beautiful country to return one day, proudly, perhaps as a rich man: leaving to save your life, even as you risk losing it…. He thought it all over and couldn't understand how he'd reached such a point. The obsession quickly became a curse… Tahar Ben Jelloun, Leaving Tangier, 10.
Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe, Aug 2015
In Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s collection of short stories Der Hof im Spiegel (2001) we find a performa... more In Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s collection of short stories Der Hof im Spiegel (2001) we find a performance of literary spaces which prevents us from anchoring these spaces either in any underlying referential space, or in the life of an empirical person. Özdamar draws on her specific transnational experience of having left Turkey and having moved to Germany, but – as in all of her texts – these experiences are transformed into literary topologies: moving and dynamic spaces of remembrances, citation, and imagination, in which encounter-events within a lived transnational space are transformed into phantasmatic time-space-habitats that permit the co-existence of the absent and the present, the living and the dead. These latter are humorously and lovingly assembled, in the eponymous opening story of Der Hof im Spiegel in the mirror central to the story, alluding to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. By means of this phantasmatic assemblage, the story weaves a network of poetic and personal references and demonstrates how processes of orientation and identification, as physical and psychological processes within space and through time, are open-ended and relational. Özdamar’s story pursues this by explicitly sketching the narrator’s “personal city-map”, and her text thus offers, as Leslie Adelson had suggested for the poetry of Zafer Şenocak, sites of reorientation. Her texts draw maps which showcase multilayered temporalities and imaginary, hybrid spaces, and might in turn permit us to reorient our thinking and terminology in regard to “transnational” lives.
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, May 2015
This paper explores Hélène Cixous’s and Jacques Derrida’s explicit revisiting of their Algeria me... more This paper explores Hélène Cixous’s and Jacques Derrida’s explicit revisiting of their Algeria memories, especially in their later work (mainly Reveries of the Wild Woman and Monolingualism of the Other). These texts offer a specifically deconstructive response to the colonial project in Algeria, attempting to think non-appropriative relations to otherness and processes of identification that exceed a self/other binary. Investigating the colonial principle that manifested itself in Algeria from the vantage point of their Judeo-Franco-Maghrebian situatedness, they derive from this position not accounts of cultural particularity, but analyses of (and alternatives to) colonial practices of identification: analyzing colonial and identity politics as harmful to a fundamental relationality to otherness and affirming a “spectral” zone without belonging that nonetheless carves out a life with, toward, and of the other, on the others’ sides, relational without being oblivious of antagonisms and violence.
Ontworteld: De schrijver als nomade, May 2015
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Book by Birgit Mara Kaiser
From this angle, the book explores ‘diffraction’, which has begun to impact critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new) materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used without further reflection upon its implications or potentials. Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our experience of the world as relational and radically immanent; because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement, our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an in-depth consideration of ‘diffraction’ as a quantum understanding of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.
Singularity and Transnational Poetics brings together scholars working in the fields of literary and cultural studies, translation studies, and transnational literatures. The volume’s central concern is to explore singularity as a conceptual tool for the comparative study of contemporary literatures beyond national frameworks, and by implication, as a tool to analyze human existence. Contributors explore how singularity might move our conceptions of cultural identity from prevailing frameworks of self/other toward the premises of being as ‘singular plural’. Through a close reading of transnational literatures from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and South Africa, this collection offers a new approach to reading literature that will challenge a reader’s established notions of identity, individuality, communicability, and social cohesion.
Table of Content
Introduction: Navigating Differential Futures; (Un)making Colonial Pasts; L.Burns & B.M.Kaiser
PART I: DETERITORIALIZING DELEUZE, RETHINKING POSTCOLONIALISM
Forget Deleuze; B.B.Janz
The Bachelor-Machine and The Postcolonial Writer; G.Lambert
The World With(out) Others, or How to Unlearn the Desire for the Other; K.Thiele
Edward Said Between Singular and Specific; D.Huddart
Deleuze, Hallward, and the Transcendental Analytic of Relation; N.Nesbitt
PART II: THE SINGULARITY OF POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
The Singularities of Postcolonial Literature: Preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib's 'Northern Trilogy'; B.M.Kaiser
Postcolonialism Beyond the Colonized and the Colonizer: Caribbean Writing as Postcolonial 'Health'; L.Burns
Becoming-animal, Becoming-political in Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot Entêté; R.Bensmaia, translated by P.Krus
Revolutionizing Pleasure in Writing: Subversive Desire and Micropolitical Affects in Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads; M.Marinkova
Undercurrents and the Desert(ed): Negarestani, Tournier and Deleuze Map the Polytics of a 'New Earth'; R.Dolphijn
Special Issue by Birgit Mara Kaiser
Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique, Denise Ferreira da Silva
Originary Humanicity: Locating Anthropos, Vicki Kirby
What Is It Like to Be a Human? Sylvia Wynter on Autopoiesis, Max Hantel
Humanism’s Secret Shadow: The Construction of Black Gender/Sexuality in Frantz Fanon and Hortense Spillers, William M. Paris
If You Do Well, Carry! The Difference of the Humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger, Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele
If we start from the materialism of an immanent universe and its production of entangled lives and histories, our conceptions of self and other, of culture and nature, of cultural and sexual difference, and of our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries can be rethought. When exploring these units as patterns emerging from “entangled relationalities” (Barad 74), as patterns continuously effected in-and-by their encounters and intra-actions, we move toward a critical practice that departs from knowledge-production as “reflection”, that is as the activity of a reasoning subject at a distance from the examined (supposedly pre-existing and stable) objects. In this vein, diffraction is also practiced as a reading strategy that is based on the relational nature of phenomena, treating them as ‘agencies’ that emerge through relationality and intra-action, and are ontologically inseparable from their involvements, co-emergences, and differentiations. We invite papers from all fields within the humanities that explore/employ the notion of diffraction in order to develop a critical toolbox for the study of our contemporary worldings – beyond apparent kinship and linearly evolved filiation, and in view of our naturecultural complexities and co-dependencies. Diffraction permits us to rethink the units of analysis and elaborate a vocabulary more apt to address the complexity of our contemporary world – not only as interactivity on a global scale, but as “intra-activity in its differential mattering” (Barad 141).
References
Barad, Karen (2007) Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham/London: Duke)
Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg (2006) The Matrixial Borderspace (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
Glissant, Édouard (2009) Philosophie de la Relation (Paris: Gallimard)
Haraway, Donna (1997) Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_ OncoMouseTM (New York/London: Routledge)
___ (2008) When Species Meet (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press)
Kirby, Vicky (2011) Quantum Anthropologies. Life at Large (Durham/London: Duke University Press)
Nancy, Jean-Luc (1997) The Sense of the World (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press)
___ (2000) Being Singular Plural (Stanford: Stanford University Press)
Article by Birgit Mara Kaiser
From this angle, the book explores ‘diffraction’, which has begun to impact critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new) materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used without further reflection upon its implications or potentials. Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our experience of the world as relational and radically immanent; because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement, our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an in-depth consideration of ‘diffraction’ as a quantum understanding of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.
Singularity and Transnational Poetics brings together scholars working in the fields of literary and cultural studies, translation studies, and transnational literatures. The volume’s central concern is to explore singularity as a conceptual tool for the comparative study of contemporary literatures beyond national frameworks, and by implication, as a tool to analyze human existence. Contributors explore how singularity might move our conceptions of cultural identity from prevailing frameworks of self/other toward the premises of being as ‘singular plural’. Through a close reading of transnational literatures from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and South Africa, this collection offers a new approach to reading literature that will challenge a reader’s established notions of identity, individuality, communicability, and social cohesion.
Table of Content
Introduction: Navigating Differential Futures; (Un)making Colonial Pasts; L.Burns & B.M.Kaiser
PART I: DETERITORIALIZING DELEUZE, RETHINKING POSTCOLONIALISM
Forget Deleuze; B.B.Janz
The Bachelor-Machine and The Postcolonial Writer; G.Lambert
The World With(out) Others, or How to Unlearn the Desire for the Other; K.Thiele
Edward Said Between Singular and Specific; D.Huddart
Deleuze, Hallward, and the Transcendental Analytic of Relation; N.Nesbitt
PART II: THE SINGULARITY OF POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
The Singularities of Postcolonial Literature: Preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib's 'Northern Trilogy'; B.M.Kaiser
Postcolonialism Beyond the Colonized and the Colonizer: Caribbean Writing as Postcolonial 'Health'; L.Burns
Becoming-animal, Becoming-political in Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot Entêté; R.Bensmaia, translated by P.Krus
Revolutionizing Pleasure in Writing: Subversive Desire and Micropolitical Affects in Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads; M.Marinkova
Undercurrents and the Desert(ed): Negarestani, Tournier and Deleuze Map the Polytics of a 'New Earth'; R.Dolphijn
Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique, Denise Ferreira da Silva
Originary Humanicity: Locating Anthropos, Vicki Kirby
What Is It Like to Be a Human? Sylvia Wynter on Autopoiesis, Max Hantel
Humanism’s Secret Shadow: The Construction of Black Gender/Sexuality in Frantz Fanon and Hortense Spillers, William M. Paris
If You Do Well, Carry! The Difference of the Humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger, Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele
If we start from the materialism of an immanent universe and its production of entangled lives and histories, our conceptions of self and other, of culture and nature, of cultural and sexual difference, and of our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries can be rethought. When exploring these units as patterns emerging from “entangled relationalities” (Barad 74), as patterns continuously effected in-and-by their encounters and intra-actions, we move toward a critical practice that departs from knowledge-production as “reflection”, that is as the activity of a reasoning subject at a distance from the examined (supposedly pre-existing and stable) objects. In this vein, diffraction is also practiced as a reading strategy that is based on the relational nature of phenomena, treating them as ‘agencies’ that emerge through relationality and intra-action, and are ontologically inseparable from their involvements, co-emergences, and differentiations. We invite papers from all fields within the humanities that explore/employ the notion of diffraction in order to develop a critical toolbox for the study of our contemporary worldings – beyond apparent kinship and linearly evolved filiation, and in view of our naturecultural complexities and co-dependencies. Diffraction permits us to rethink the units of analysis and elaborate a vocabulary more apt to address the complexity of our contemporary world – not only as interactivity on a global scale, but as “intra-activity in its differential mattering” (Barad 141).
References
Barad, Karen (2007) Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham/London: Duke)
Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg (2006) The Matrixial Borderspace (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
Glissant, Édouard (2009) Philosophie de la Relation (Paris: Gallimard)
Haraway, Donna (1997) Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_ OncoMouseTM (New York/London: Routledge)
___ (2008) When Species Meet (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press)
Kirby, Vicky (2011) Quantum Anthropologies. Life at Large (Durham/London: Duke University Press)
Nancy, Jean-Luc (1997) The Sense of the World (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press)
___ (2000) Being Singular Plural (Stanford: Stanford University Press)