At the Crossroad of Phenomenology and Feminist New Materialism

Abstract

Abstract This chapter invites us to an experimental encounter at the crossroads of phenomenology and feminist new materialism in which neither the reader nor the author knows in advance what onto-epistemological knowledge will emerge from the mix of concepts, bodies, images, and affects. It invites us to focus on embodiment and to follow a line of thought that belongs neither to the initiator nor to the reader, but happens ‘between them’. It proposes to the readers to immerse themselves in several short stories, coming from different sources, and to consider them as resources to think with. The diffraction of narratives, like the movement of the waves, produces six interferences in between the concept of embodiment with ordinary affect, corpomateriality, transcorporeality, virtual embodiment, becoming-animal, and affective pedagogy. The chapter ends with a discussion of the methodology of diffractive reading.