Ethosof Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsI am very grateful for conversations with Karen Barad and Vicki Kirby during the writing of this article. It was an incredible experience to be in exchange while writing on diffraction. I would also like to thank Birgit M. Kaiser, Iris van der Tuin and the two reviewers for very insightful and helpful comments in the completion of this manuscript.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathrin ThieleKathrin Thiele is assistant professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is trained as a critical theorist with research expertise in continental philosophy, feminist theories of difference and (post)humanist studies. Her current research explores feminist cosmo-politics from a posthuman(ist) perspective, and with it she aims at the revitalization of critical analyses within the (new) humanities. She has authored The Thought of Becoming. Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Life (2008), and edited (with Katrin Trüstedt) HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell (2009) and (with Maria Muhle) Biopolitische Konstellationen (2011). Her articles have appeared in Women: A Cultural Review and Deleuze Studies. She is also co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica (www.terracritica.net) Email: k.thiele@uu.nl