Birgit Mara Kaiser is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include aesthetics and affect, Deleuzian literary criticism, Derrida, Cixous, and Guattari, as well as literature in postcolonial and transnational contexts.

Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where she teaches courses in contemporary feminist theories, philosophies of difference, queer theory and feminist technoscience studies. Her research expertise lies in feminist and continental philosophies, theories of difference(s), and posthuman(ist) studies.

PrefaceIntroduction - Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities1. Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart2. Diffractive Propositions: Reading Alfred North Whitehead with Donna Haraway and Karen Barad3. Ethos of Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics4. Ecce Homo Sexual: Ontology and Eros in the Age of Incompleteness and Entanglement5. Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto- Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation6. Diffracted Waves and World Literature7. Diffraction, Handwriting and Intra-Mediality in Louise Paillé's Livres-livres8. Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy