The Communion of Clouds

In her well-read work on contemporary feminist theory titled Nomadic Subjects (2011), Rosi Braidotti gets to grips with the Deleuzian notion of â becoming-womanâ . Noting that the concept has experienced a good deal of criticism in feminist circles (and from some important feminists too, such as Luce Irigaray), Braidotti argues that there is still something of extreme importance in this concept for the feminist to recover. For Braidotti, â becoming-womanâ allows for â a nonunitary and multi-layered visionâ of the subject. That is to say, it allows for the description of â a dynamic and changing entityâ (5) â one that challenges the striated formulations of â womanâ found in phallo- and Euro-centric master codes. Importantly, however, it does so not by posing an essentialised subject position of â womanâ for others either to mimic or aspire to (often the grounds for the misreading of the concept), but rather by referencing â womanâ as an intensity of sorts, an intensity that is the pre-condition for both revolutionary thought and action (249-250)

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