(Re)birthing the maternal (original) (raw)

The aim of this essayistoexplorethe political and ethical potential of (re)birthing through Barad'sc onceptualisation of transmateriality. This article puts Barad'st hought on entanglement, emergence,and responsibility into conversation with other work in feminist philosophy and psychoanalysis that has grappled with questions of the maternal, birthing, and ethics. On the one hand,this encounter suggests that there are other ways of posing questionsofseparation,responsibility, and power through the maternal that might challenge aspects of Barad'stelling. But at the same time, by bringing Barad'sthought into these conversations, Is how how Barad'st ranspositions of (re)birthing havet he potential to radically reopen and trans*figurefeministethics and politics via amore dispersed, immoderate, and ultimately queer perspectiveonhow the ethics that inheres in the coming into (non)being of the world.