This is a moment for new conversations and synergies. While wealth of contemporary speculative materialisms currently circulating in academia, art activism, this article we focus upon few ethico-political stakes the different, loosely affiliated conceptions ontologies immanence. More specifically, are concerned here with very meaning speculation itself after many headings immanent ontologies, such as object-oriented ontology (OOO), realism or (feminist) materialisms. Our concern feminist...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size AcknowledgementsI am very grateful for conversations with Karen Barad and Vicki Kirby during the writing of this article. It was an incredible experience be in exchange while on diffraction. I would also like thank Birgit M. Kaiser, Iris van der Tuin two reviewers insightful helpful comments completion manuscript.Additional informationNotes contributorsKathrin ThieleKathrin Thiele is assistant professor Gender Studies at Utrecht University,...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature Bochum, London, Madrid Bielefeld, she received her PhD from New York University. Her current research spans literatures English, French German the eighteenth twenty-first century, with special interest aesthetics, affectivity subject-formation. She...

Critically revisiting the ‘equality versus difference’ dualism that is inscribed in feminist canon of last decades an important task for ethico-political discussions today. The theoretico-political tension between claims equality and difference still troubles thus needs to be addressed by contemporary research. Yet, moving beyond persisting antagonism cannot done either outside problematic relation or choosing one term over other. It is, as Joan W. Scott noted, impossible choose difference,...

Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Right”: Regarding Coherence Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted Universal Declaration Rights in December 1948, Arendt published—first English rapidly afterwards German—a short text that was noth­ ing less than a scathing critique recent attempts to reanimate idea human rights as political foundation (Arendt, 1949b).1 pointed declaration’s complete...

We compared nine linear measures of body size and their appropriateness as estimators for in apoid wasps. A correlation a multiple regression analysis with backward elimination non-significant variables the parameters dry weight were carried out entire data set various subsets (defined by sex, classes, systematic position). All are significantly correlated weight. Since all also each other, multicolinearity effects likely to occur, which reflect biological fact rather than an extraneous...

This essay diffracts the question of heading Europe that Derrida asked in 1990. We do so through prism harraga presented Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangiers and Boualem Sansal's Harraga. Although as capital has been ‘de-identified’ (Derrida Citation1992, 75) wake decolonization postcolonial critique, it still to be de-identified always anew. Something promised its name is, we suggest, currently most forcefully reclaimed by people who ‘burn up road’. Listening these claims is vital for any...

I.In 2015, first-time feature filmmaker Morgan Knibbe released to critical acclaim Those Who Feel the Fire Burning(2015), a documentary film that creatively examines what in mainstream discourses h...

If You Do Well, Carry! The Difference of the HumaneAn Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele following conversation explores stakes human(e) in work Ettinger. has been working on this question throughout all her art-workings as well theoretical work. Central elements to feminist reworking psychoanalytic approaches (human) subjectivity are insistence matrixial metramorphosis, which connectivity acquires primary importance, supplements-questions Lacan's starting...

Karen Barad's work distinguishes itself as a diffraction pattern of quantum physics, feminist/queer thought and/as philosophy.In order to gauge the ethico-onto-epistemological impact that shift toward 'quantum' has on theorizations what we call 'world' and 'Being'-those 'big' philosophical questions-it helps relate her other endeavors also this foundational level.In contribution I propose read ontology alongside Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari's urgent quest immanence.It is concern for...

In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari make the claim that ‘[i]t may be believing in this world, life, becomes our most difficult task, or task of a mode existence still to discovered on plane immanence today. This empiricist conversion.’ are we such calling? The paper explicates why what sense statement exemplary significance both for an appropriate understanding Deleuze's political thought timely conceptualisation politics world so clearly defined by immanence, nothing but immanence....

In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari make the claim that ‘[i]t may be believing in this world, life, becomes our most difficult task, or task of a mode existence still to discovered on plane immanence today. This empiricist conversion.’ are we such calling? The paper explicates why what sense statement exemplary significance both for an appropriate understanding Deleuze's political thought timely conceptualisation politics world so clearly defined by immanence, nothing but immanence....

Starting from the famous statement by Deleuze and Guattari in What Is Philosophy? that ‘[i]mmanence can be said to burning issue of all philosophy’, this article explores their claim an ontology immanence and/as relational quantum terms. The theme special allows for a rereading terminology different/ciation, which developed ‘The Method Dramatization’ Difference Repetition, I here relate it question consistency plane immanence, such as is emphasised later work Guattari. exemplifies...

Are we on the same page here? Because too are also now struggling to move beyond knee-jerk limits of Us and Them.1One key historical ‘site memory’ in which Jamaican novelist, ...

Returning (to) the Question of HumanAn Introduction Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele So for us to deal with global warming, this will call a farreaching transformation knowledge—this pari passu new mutation answer (its "descriptive statement") that we give question as who humans are. —Sylvia Wynter, "Unparalleled Catastrophe Our Species?" With each intra-action, manifold entangled relations is reconfigured. And so consequentiality, responsibility, accountability take on entirely valences....