The Pleasure of Blurring Borders and the Responsibility of Rebuilding them: For a Feminist, Post-human View of Ethics and Politics

Abstract

This article explores the epistemological significance of borders in feminist studies within what Barad calls onto-epistemology: the indivisible relationship between practices of being and knowing. Among the contributions that most critically reshaped the concept of representation as a crucial onto-epistemological issue, this article takes into particular account those which, within the English-speaking debate on post-structuralist-inspired African American, postcolonial, queer and science and technology studies, have re-established the concept of border in new ways. These contributions have stated ethico-political models that warn the subject against saying "we" on the basis of supposed common positioning at the margins, and encourage one to say "we" on the basis of alliances, interference and temporary, performative, agential assemblages that take into account the liminality of each subject.

Keywords: Boundary, Diffraction, Entanglement, Responsibility.