Abstract

Diffraction has emerged as a concept and methodology through opposing reflexivity. In this paper, I argue that reflexivity and diffraction are not external to each other. In contrast, I propose that they blur into each other and so we do not find ourselves using pure reflexivity or diffraction. Furthermore, I contend that categorically distinguishing reflexivity and diffraction can generate practices of exclusion and the unwitting reproduction of what we would like to avoid. Through letting reflexivity and diffraction intra-act, I develop my notion of a diffracted reflexivity. A reflexivity that acknowledges that in reflecting about ourselves we are not representing something but producing something; specifically, we are relating to ourselves in ways that are relationally, culturally and materially enabled, continuously producing ourselves and the world in that process of relating. Consequently, I propose to meta-reflexively focus the attention on the ways of relating that we enact and what they produce.

摘要

衍射通过反对自反性而成为一种概念和方法论。在本文中，我认为自反性和衍射并不是互为外部的。相比之下，我建议它们彼此模糊，因此我们不会发现自己使用纯粹的自反性或衍射。此外，我认为，明确区分反身性和绕射性可能会产生排斥行为，并在不知不觉中再现我们想要避免的事物。通过让自反性和衍射发生作用，我发展了衍射自反性的概念。一种反身性，承认在反思自己时，我们并不是在代表某些东西，而是在生产某些东西；具体来说，我们以关系、文化和物质上允许的方式与自己建立联系，在这个联系的过程中不断地创造我们自己和世界。因此，我建议将注意力集中在我们制定的关联方式及其产生的内容上。