ABSTRACT
The most common view of technology is that it is an artefact or tool simply available, to use or not to use, in order for humans to achieve their objectives and outcomes. Technologies are already the outcome of complex, contingent, and subtle historical social processes and practices – in other words it is socially constructed in a very direct and significant manner. Sociomaterial becoming is about actuality. Performativity happens in and through the actual accomplishments – or intra-actions, as K. Barad would say – of heterogeneous assemblages. The idea of performativity is central to most scholars working within ontology of becoming. Performativity happens in and through the actual accomplishments – or intra-actions, as Barad would say – of heterogeneous assemblages. To conclude some of the implications of a performative understanding of sociomaterial practices, both for social work researchers, and for social work practitioners. In performative sociomaterial becoming everything is ontological and ethical at the same time.
