Intelligible World Making? Diffractive Readings of Responses to Peer Review Feedback

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 9:00 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Technology, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet, and Posthumanism (Table 4)

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to share a diffractive reading of Author2’s responses to feedback
for 3 articles that were eventually published. In reading diffractively, we see possibilities in
understanding the publication process as it sits within an assemblage of considerations as well as
the ethics and values of crucial post-human/ post-foundational work. The diffractive reading
revealed how Author1 privileged neither text’s as being primary or more important and thus used
neither as a measuring tool for the other. In diffractively reading, Author1 was attuned to “which
differences matter” and where those differences led or pointed, including similarities to be found
in both texts (Barad, 2007, p. 378; italics in original).

Authors

• Nick DePascal, University of New Mexico

• Mary F. Rice, University of New Mexico