 Butler’s (1993) thinking together of the material and the discursive, has, however, been criticized, for not allowing the body more of a drag on signification (Alaimo and Hekman 2008; Lennon and Alsop 2019). Such a “flight from the material” according to Alaimo and Hekman, has foreclosed attention to “lived material bodies and evolving corporeal practices” (2008: 3). To correct such a deficit, in the framework of what is termed the new materialism, what is stressed instead is that, although “language structures how we apprehend the ontological, it doesn’t constitute it” (2008: 98). The insight of the new materialist discussions has been to ensure that matter, the material, is accorded an active role in this relation.