“For my part, I no longer accept invitations to critique the work of others. This is because critique no longer interests me, and as Karen Barad explains, ‘critique is over-rated, over-emphasized, and over-utilized, to the detriment of feminism’ (Dolphijn and Van Der Tuin 2012, 49). Critique is just another way we teach our students or our readers to trash the work of another author, to pick holes in their oeuvre, their arguments and their concepts. It has very little to do with close reading or 'serious engagement’ since very often critique is just too easy or plain lazy. Barad points out the negative critical valences of critique and warns that it is 'all too often not a deconstructive practice, that is, a practice of reading for the constitutive exclusions of those ideas we can not do without, but a destructive practice meant to dismiss, to turn aside, to put someone or something down—another scholar, another feminist, a discipline, an approach, et cetera’ (49). In place of this all too automatic form of dismissal Barad suggests we employ 'diffractive’ practices of reading, modes of attention which are not motivated by the hermeneutics of suspicion but are rather 'suggestive, creative, and visionary’ (50).”
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