Diffraction -proposes a new understanding of difference beyond binaries. Reflecting on the term's implications and potentials, the book pursues new routes for our onto-epistemological and ethical responses to a fundamentally relational and entangled world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.

Preface Introduction - Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities 1. Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart 2. Diffractive Propositions: Reading Alfred North Whitehead with Donna Haraway and Karen Barad 3. Ethos of Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics 4. Ecce Homo Sexual: Ontology and Eros in the Age of Incompleteness and Entanglement 5. Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto- Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation 6. Diffracted Waves and World Literature 7. Diffraction, Handwriting and Intra-Mediality in Louise Paillé's Livres-livres 8. Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy

Birgit Mara Kaiser is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include aesthetics and affect, Deleuzian literary criticism, Derrida, Cixous, and Guattari, as well as literature in postcolonial and transnational contexts.

Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where she teaches courses in contemporary feminist theories, philosophies of difference, queer theory and feminist technoscience studies. Her research expertise lies in feminist and continental philosophies, theories of difference(s), and posthuman(ist) studies.