Posthümanist Edimsellik: Maddenin Nasıl Maddeleştiğini/Önem Arz Ettiğini Kavramaya Doğru
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter

Author(s): Karen Barad
Subject(s): Psychology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: posthumanist performativity; posthumanist; matter;
Summary/Abstract: Language has been granted too much power. The linguistic turn, the semiotic turn, the interpretative turn, the cultural turn: it seems that at every turn lately every “thing”—even materiality—is turned into a matter of language or some other form of cultural representation. The ubiquitous puns on “matter” do not, alas, mark a rethinking of the key concepts (materiality and signification) and the relationship between them. Rather, it seems to be symptomatic of the extent to which matters of “fact” (so to speak) have been replaced with matters of signification (no scare quotes here). Language matters. Discourse matters. Culture matters. There is an important sense in which the only thing that does not seem to matter anymore is matter.

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