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…the subject “woman” is not a monolithic essence defined once and for all but rather the site of multiple, complex, and potentially contradictory sets of experiences, defined by overlapping variables such as class, race, age, lifestyle, sexual preference, and others. Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects, Page 4

Becoming is a question of undoing the structures of domination by careful, patient revisitations, re-adjustments, micro-changes. A long apprenticeship to minute transformations, through endless repetitions, will replace the illusion of a royal road to the revolution or of one single point of resistance, and assert instead the constant flows of met(r)amorphoses. Becoming is a...

As Kear astutely points out (1999:183): ‘If Ego equals Ghost, then “I am” would mean “I am haunted”‘ – in other words, ‘I’ am simultaneously constructed by the introduction of the desire and by the failure of it. This forces ‘me’ performatively to repeat the ‘hauntologically’ primal scene which marks the site of ‘my’...