Barad Meeting the Universe Halfway

Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8812-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 541 Seiten

A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, Karen Barad elaborates her theory of agential realism, a schema that is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barad, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

Part I. Entangled Beginnings

Introduction: The Science and Ethics of Mattering 3

1. Meeting the Universe Halfway 39

2. Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements That Matter 71

Part II. Intra-Actions Matter

3. Niels Bohr's Philosophy-Physics: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Knowledge and Reality 97

4. Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter 132

Part III. Entanglements and Re(Con)figurations

5. Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality 189

6. Spacetime Re(con)figurings: Naturalcultural Forces and Changing Topologies of Power 223

7. Quantum Entanglements: Experimental Metaphysics and the Nature of Nature 247

8. The Ontology of Knowing, the Intra-activity of Becoming, and the Ethics of Mattering 353

Appendix A. Cascade Experiment, by Alice Fulton 397

Appendix B. The Uncertainty Principle is Not the Basis of Bohr's Complementarity 399

Appendix C. Controversy concerning the Relationship between Bohr's Principle of Complementarity and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 402

Notes 405

References 477

Index 493

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a doctorate in theoretical particle physics.