Deflationary Logic

Abstract

The article presents a response to the commentary of Sara Ahmed on the article "Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the New Materialism." The author elaborates that Ahmed analyses the effects of the founding gestures of the burgeoning and emergent field called new materialism. Ahmed argues that these gestures seem to have become routine in feminist theory, it constitute not only new materialism but also a false and reductive history of feminist engagement with biology, science and materialism. Ahmed's arguments definitive statement is that a reductive reading of matter and materiality constitutes a new materialism and vice versa. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)