Power matters: Posthuman entanglements in a social solidarity clinic
基于希腊一家社会诊所的实证数据，提出一种物质主义和表演性的权力概念，探讨人类与非人类主体在日常实践中的纠缠如何构成权力的动态物质，对关注替代性组织和权力物质性的学者有参考价值。
This paper develops a materialist and performative conception of power, proposing a theoretical framework that bridges Barad’s intra-active agential ontology and Foucault’s microphysics of power. The article uses empirical data collected from a social clinic in Greece where the traditional apparatus of the clinic is contested and experimentally reconfigured. We focus on three overlapping themes and reflect on how power relations materialize themselves through everyday practices and multiple entanglements between human and non-human agents. We argue that these entanglements constitute the dynamic matter of power: their performative reiteration determines how power matters. By showing how power materially exceeds the manifest intentions of human agents, our case study aims to contribute to an idea of alternative organising that accounts for the materiality of mundane posthuman entanglements within an antagonistic understanding of power.