ABSTRACT
Barad (2008) asks us to stop: stop giving language so much power; stop with language as representational; stop the belief in the power of the Word to pre-exist and create; stop with our illusion of time as linear and always already cause-then-effect; stop placing our human selves in the centre of all things thatmatter. She asks us to see ourselves as of the world, part of the lively and ongoing production of possibilities and exclusions, as entangled, as phenomena: as intra-action. Materiality matters, Barad argues, not as an add-on to language, not as a matter of language, but because the material can never be separate from language. Expanding on the work of Foucault (1975/1979) and Butler (1993), Barad (2008) argues, for a post-humanist performativity of which ‘All bodies, not merely ‘human’ bodies, come to matter through the world’s iterative intra-activity – its performativity’ (141).
