defraction

is not about identity as taxonomy, but it's about registering process on the recording screen. So I use it to talk about making a difference in the world as opposed to just being endlessly self-reflexive.

As a metaphor it drops the metaphysics of identity and the metaphysics of representation and says optics is full of a whole other potent way of thinking about light, which is about history. It's not about identity as taxonomy, but it's about registering process on the recording screen. So i use it to talk about making a difference in the world as opposed ot just being endlessly self-reflexive' (Haraway 2000:104).

defraction, n.All

defraction