ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we argue that the diffraction, entanglement, and difference concepts are important for the growth and understanding of knowledge, and for our own friendship-based academic, personal, and relational development. From a dialogic exchange proceeding from the work of Barad and Deleuze, and writing chiming sympathetically with this work, our aim is to show that valuable onto-epistemological academic and personal change can occur in unanticipated ways. We exemplify how the development and understanding of knowledge, and friendship-based experiences of academic and personal relationships, are all - in Deleuzean terms - elements in affective flows, with no one element privileged over another.
