ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 returns to the central themes of irreconcilability and the datalogical, considering how the datalogical is framed by a series of longstanding feminist concerns around knowledge, lived inequalities and structure/agency. I argue not only that the datalogical is a long-term gendered condition, but that it is also, and problematically, a normative one. I focus on two central issues, my research participants’ critical awareness of being datalogical, and the fundamental conceptual and lived irreconcilability of datalogical motherhood. Indeed, whilst it may be no surprise that motherhood and the datalogical are irreconcilable not least because of the long-term imaginings and normative discourses around both which sets them as oppositional if not diametrically opposed; we can also use this irreconcilability to think through a number of avenues for disruption particularly in relation to mundanity.
