Diffraction for Performance Research: A new materialist approach to theory/practice.

How I to live i a world of difference(s), a world in/ as ongoing differentiation, in such ways that the outcome is not ever more separation and antagonism, exclusion and fear of others, but so that new senses of commonality are envisioned Kathrin Thiele ([4]: 202) Difference I matters i . Diffractio...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Performance Research Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 1 - 4
Main Author: Bayley, Annouchka
Format: Editorial
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun-Aug2020
Subjects:
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Description
Summary:How I to live i a world of difference(s), a world in/ as ongoing differentiation, in such ways that the outcome is not ever more separation and antagonism, exclusion and fear of others, but so that new senses of commonality are envisioned Kathrin Thiele ([4]: 202) Difference I matters i . Diffraction is not a beginning and not an end, but an eternal "from the middle" that performs infinite kinds of possibilities that emerge from a phenomenon when it is momentarily "cut" (Barad [1]) into shape/form/ difference. Diffraction puts critical attention on the processes of difference, not the end result nor the permutations in themselves, but the patterns phenomena make as they diffract I through i one another endlessly.