Diffracting New Materialisms

lt;p> Annouchka Bayley is an Assistant Professor in Arts, Creativities & Education and Chair of the Arts & Creativities Research Group at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of Education and a Fellow of Darwin College. Annouchka works in the field of artistic research, posthumanisms and new materialisms for the development of Education. She is also a practising artist and has written, performed and directed more than twenty one-woman and ensemble shows internationally.

JJ Chan is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, UK. They are an artist working across and amidst sculpture, moving image, and writing as art forms. Their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations on the train and at the bus stop to explore borders of fictions and realities.

Part One:  Apparatuses Of Diffraction.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Diffracting The 'New'.- Chapter 2: How To Read This Book: Apparatus/Technics/Frameworks.- Chapter 3: Interlude/ Artist's Pages: Entanglements And Response-Ability In Intergenerational Performance Ecology.- Part Two: Working With Diffraction: Five Modes.- Chapter 4: Diffracting Time/Space/Matter As Cross-Disciplinary Methodology Between Science, Arts, And Sts (Science & Technology Studies).- Chapter 5: '"If One Looks Closely At An Edge": On Illumination And Difference In Crowd, Can You Feel It? And Beat.- Chapter 6: Into The Wave Fields: Performance Art In The Quantum Age.- Chapter 7: On The Way To The Show We Stopped To Take A Look.- Chapter 8: The Diffractive Practice/S Of A Metafictioning Manifold Through Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar: One Rainy Day In May, Volume One.- Chapter 9: Diffractive Thinking, Reading And Writing: Methodology Of Constallations.- Chapter 10: How Might Theorizing Diffraction By Way Of Feminist And Queer Theory Elaborate Material And Discursive Stakes Of Dis/Appearance In Performance? Or, How Might Theories Of Queered Feminist Diffraction Collapse The Boundaries Between The "Material" And The "Discursive"?.- Chapter 11: Differing Bodyminds: Dance As A Method To Diffract Disability.- Chapter 12: Tripartite/Trinity/Tattoos; Tristan Webber.- Chapter 13: Reimagining Methodologies Of Reading.- Chapter 14: Diffractive Selfies In Amalia Ulman's Excellences And Perfections.- Chapter 15: Essayers, Zines, And Peeps: The Matter Of Diffraction (For) Undergraduate Practice-As-Research.- Chapter 16: Rudolf Laban's Space Harmony.- Chapter 17: Plastic Critique: Of (Para-)Institutional Choreographics.- Chapter 18: Estado Vegetal (Vegetative State).- Chapter 19: Excavating The Present.- Part Three: Re-Begining: Tripartite Time .- Chapter 20: The Diffractive Power Of Repetition.- Chapter 21: 'Navigations: A Diffracted History Of Naturalism'.- Chapter 22: Post Script.