Comics – posthuman, queer-end, um_un-ordnend

Abstract

Drawing on comic-theoretical discussions of the comics medium's structural queerness—to be determined, above all, in its specific materiality, the media-constitutive figure of repetition, the interlinear reading and, thus, the particular possibilities of a re-reading of (human) bodies—this article demonstrates a posthuman-queer reading of comics. To this end, the comic-theoretical bases are given a new perspective through Karen Barad's elaborations on Nature's Queer Performativity. Subsequently, productively re_dis-arranging readings of bodies in comics are traced. As examples serve Ken Dahl's Monsters, Martin tom Dieck and Jens Balzer's Salut, Deleuze!, Regina Hofer's Blad, and Anke Feuchtenberger's Das Haus.

Keywords

• comics
• queer
• Karen Barad
• body
• new materialism
• posthumanism