“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory

“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory Jasbir K. Puar “Grids happen” writes Brian Massumi, at a moment in Parables for the Virtual where one is tempted to be swept away by the endless affirmative becomings of movement, flux, and potential, as opposed to being pinned down by the retroactive positioning of identity (2002, 8). For the most part, Massumi has been less interested in how grids happen than in asking how they can un-happen, or not happen. What the tension between the two purportedly opposing forces signals, at this junction of scholarly criticism, might be thought of as a dialogue between theories that deploy the subject as a primary analytic frame, and…