The chapter assumes a feminist new materialist approach to explore the entanglement of temporality, materiality and power within a practice agencement. Feminist new materialism in empirical research is a methodology that emphasizes the vitality of matter and the performative and affective flow of agency. The chapter deals both with the materiality of human bodies (and normative embodiment in organizations) and with the materiality of digital technologies and their normative power over teens’ sexuality. Temporality is explored by means of two concepts – refrain and feminist snap – that create orientations for thinking about how the entangled elements that form a practice assume in time different configurations according to the elements’ capacity to affect and be affected. While refrain illuminates the lines of flight within differentiating practices, feminist snap highlights the breaking moment of discontinuity when digital networking subverts the control on women’s bodies.

This chapter provides a sketch of the representation of feminist subjectivity in literature from the mid-1990s to the present. I adopt a survey approach to consider the Tiger period’s representation of subjective alienation, while focusing in more specifically on the work of four post-Tiger writers – Sally Rooney, Nancy Harris, Melatu Okorie, and Alvy Carragher – to analyze the intricacies of their constructions of subjectivity. Through this analysis, the chapter explores how the solo voices of critique morph into conversational exchange, as the post-Tiger feminist literary landscape establishes vital links between embodied subjectivity and digital space in complex constructions of “biodigital subjectivity” (a term I draw from Aristea Fotopoulou) to establish a networked subject that is simultaneously (and contradictorily) empowered and rendered intensely vulnerable in the risky terrain of technologically mediated life. I conclude with a brief analysis of how this type of networked paradigm is at play in the public feminist activisms of post-Tiger Irish culture, especially in examples of literary feminisms that engender critiques of collective resistance in powerful calls for change.