…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 nomadic kind of revisitation or remembering which traces empowering transversal lines that cut across the staticity of sedimented memory, activating it by de-programming it out of the dominant mode. Becomings are creative work-in-progress processes. Like a text by Gertrude Stein, set to music by Philip Glass and performed by Diamanda Galas, it is the kind of refrain that sticks and keeps on returning: the sort of thing that one, quite simply, forgot to forget.

Rosi Braidotti/ Metamophoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. P.116

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’ constitutive foundation in loss and lack.

Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, P.56