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<p>I want to pick up on something that Catherine d' Ignazio mentioned in her introductory text earlier on the limits of critique. This has been on my mind recently after I gave a paper at the London Conference of Critical Thought, Birkbeck in London. The paper
discussed several articles by Karen Barad: the first exploring the limits of critique (amongst other things); the second, exploring the limits of representation. For Barad (2012), critique is over- utilised and to the detriment of feminism, being dismissive
rather than deconstructive, and relying on rhetoric. She is also critical elsewhere of a reliance upon 'representationalism', which has come to seem natural- there is a notion that representation takes precedence over matter itself, whether through language
or visual means (2003). The digital can interestingly frame these ideas, because, for example, the digital image or object is granular, evolving and ontological. Its materiality highlights a move away from the representationalism of the pre-digital. Perhaps
this consideration of materiality before ideas of representation and content take hold and precedence, can be helpful (what Catherine refers to as 'situated' knowledge) What if data visualisations were treated as ontological objects, rather than representations?...
I am wondering whether we are post-representation, whatever that may mean... I could say much more-- but perhaps that gives a few ideas for now...</p>
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