'Dangerously Small Things': Response to Iris van der Tuin. Issue 89 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nocek, Stacey Moran
• Is Part Of: Australian feminist studies. Volume 31:Issue 89(2016)
• Page Start: 267
• Page End: 275
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Feminism -- Periodicals; Feminism -- Australia -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Australia -- Periodicals; 305.42
• DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2016.1254539
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0816-4649

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay responds to Iris van der Tuin's, 'Microaggressions as New Political Material for Feminist Scholars and Activists: Perspectives from Continental Philosophy, the New Materialisms, and Popular Culture', by situating her interrogation as a performative intervention on the psychologisation of microaggression research. Her intervention thus expands the potential for feminist critical practice, and opens up the discourse to emergent political materials. In this vein, I offer two additional, but 'small', materials. First, because language plays a role in the exclusionary cuts through which all entities emerge, I encourage material feminism not to abandon linguistic entities as political materials. Second, by interrupting the false choice between individual and collective political action, I suggest a re-scaling of feminist political action for our neoliberal times.