Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 

About: Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Conversation. It has an ISSN identifier of 1041-8385. Over the lifetime, 230 publications have been published receiving 1582 citations.

Nature's Queer Performativity

Abstract: In this article, Karen Barad entertains the possibility of the queerness of one of the most pervasive of all critters – atoms These “ultraqueer” critters with their quantum quotidian qualities queer queerness itself in their radically deconstructive ways of being Given that queer is a radical questioning of identity and binaries, including the nature/culture binary, this article aims to show that all sorts of seeming impossibilities are indeed possible, including the queerness of causality, matter, space, and time What if queerness were understood to reside not in the breech of nature/culture, per se, but in the very nature of spacetimemattering, Barad asks This article also considers questions of ethics and justice, and in particular, examines the ways in which moralism insists on having its way with the nature/culture divide Barad argues that moralism, feeds off of human exceptionalism, and, in particular, human superiority and causes injury to humans and nonhumans alike, is a genetic carrier of genocidal hatred, and undermines ecologies of diversity necessary for flourishing