Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realms, agential. Karen barads meeting the universe halfway makes fundamental contributions to science studies, philosophy, feminist theory, and physicsit is a rare book that can do that. Synthese library studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science, vol 256. Duke university press meeting the universe halfway. Pheromones were defined by karlson and luscher in 1959 as substances which are secreted to the outside by an individual and received by a. Whereas earlier renditions of environmentalism tended to share those orderings, the new materialism associated with scholars such as bruno latour, donna haraway, jane bennett, and karen barad welcomes the merging of life and matter. Following barads understanding that knowing is a direct material engagement meeting the universe halfway, 2007, this analysis offers novel paths to engage with freuds creative somatic materializations in the body. Drawing on the philosophical implications of danish particle physicist neils bohrs writings as well as poststructuralist theories of performativity, in meeting the universe halfway. Meeting the universe halfway is the most important and exciting book in science studies that i have read in a long time.
Engspurdishabic engineering, culture, and the future. What is new about new materialism for sport sociology. Three years later, in 2010, the new materialist paradigm. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning 2007 barad elaborates an ontology of agential realism which affirms that the primary ontological units. Meeting the universe halfway is an ambitious book with farreaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. I will roughly term these developments, after brian massumi, the turn to affect and trace it to his 2002 book parables for the virtual. Karen barads meeting the universe halfway is an ambitious work of science studies whose aim is nothing less than a crucial. Fa meeting the universe halfway af karen barad som paperback.
Project muse storied seas and living metaphors in the. Karen michelle barad born 29 april 1956, is an american feminist theorist, known particularly for her theory of agential realism. Barad is most known for her neologisms and unexpected conversational partners across disparate disciplinary fields. Realism and social constructivism without contradiction. Meeting the universe halfway is a complete account of quantum physics viewed from a diffractive perspective and with an agential realist focus in mind. That formulation brings us from phelans ontology of performance as disappearance, mentioned in the beginning, to an extended understanding of performance as action, process and becoming, something. I analyse scientific articles on human pheromones from a critical feminist perspective, using new materialist feminist theories, in particular, the work of judith butler, karen barad and annemarie mol. David abram, becoming animal we are a part of that nature that we seek to. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Karen barad born april, 1956 is best known for her theory of agential realism. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
Invited through an open call process, the parallel programme highlights include childrens events, roundtable discussions, a piano recital, the baking of traditional thin breads and a series of open. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. View all notes we need less a grammar of plurality than a heuristic of morphology, in which case it is advantageous to see rhetoric as polythetic poly multiply. This paper explores an inhuman reading of hands within visual images of a finnish literacy lesson. This approach allows recentering the body in ego formation and the subjectobject relations in psychoanalysis. New materialists such as stacy alaimo 2010, karen barad 2017, jane bennett 2009, and bruno latour 2005 have all argued in different ways that our social worlds are composed through the actions and interactions among material bodies, including those of humans. In this volume, karen barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Sep 20, 2015 i had the great pleasure and challenge of reading karen barad s meeting the universe halfway.
Animals free fulltext bodies of knowledge, kinetic. As a result, barads theory is challenging, in my view, to take on. I felt a drive to get these two fields to merge in my work. Karen barad, meeting the universe halfway an ancient mediterranean landscape. Meeting the universe halfway by karen barad dymocks. Quantum physics and the entanglement o f matter and meaning. I had the great pleasure and challenge of reading karen barads meeting the universe halfway.
Theorists such as karen barad 2007, timothy morton 2010, or steven shaviro 2014 have taken aim at the notion rarely articulated as such, but implicit in many of our behavioral and cognitive patterns that humans have a metaphysical warrant to exploit nonhuman animals as well as matter including the natural resources of our planet. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning 2007 leading the way. Giles deleuze and felix guattari 20, a thousand plateaus. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning durham, nc. Barad elaborates niels bohrs philosophyphysics in the light of feminist science studies to propose an. Notes for an econarratological theory of character. Project muse storied seas and living metaphors in the blue. Karen barad, ontology and archaeological bodies article in cambridge archaeological journal 2401. I will roughly term these developments, after brian massumi, the turn to affect and trace it.
She is currently professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at the university of california, santa cruz. Obras artistas argentinos asociaciones y sociedades aspectos sociales critica. This is an important, ambitious, readable, risktaking, and very smart book, one to savor and grow with. Discussions of the posthuman or new materialism are becoming increasingly common in anthropology, sociology, philosophy.
In this paper, we bring together two separate studies and offer a double similitude as it were, in finding common ground and common worlds between doghuman and horsehuman interactions. The talk was given june 2, 2016 at the school of culture and society, aarhus university, denmark in the. Barad elaborates niels bohrs philosophyphysics in the. Notes on mineral evolution environmental humanities duke. The concept of materiality is what has spawned the most controversy. Inspired by karen barads agential realism and the ontological turn, we disrupt a metaphysics of presence, the temporality of progress and binary logic, to reconfigure the child in literacy practices as a sympoietic phenomenon, always already assembled in human and morethanhuman company. Meeting the universe halfway 2007 is to merge them together. In barads posthumanist account meaning is an ongoing performance of the world in its differential intelligibility. Karen michelle barad, meeting the universe halfway.
The background, historical and theoretical notions that this book is based on underline and structure the fields most important questions and karen barad analyzes and dissects them from an. Duke university press, 2007 caitlin desilvey a l l c h a n g e over a decade ago i visited iceland and spent a few days exploring with a friend. Notes on mineral evolution environmental humanities. Dec 08, 2016 talk by professor karen barad with the title. Karen barad provides an original and satisfying response to a perennial problem in philosophy and cultural theory. Social science and humanities scholars who advocate an engagement with matter and the material world, now recognize the material human body, nonhuman objects, and their environments as a field of force relations with a significant impact on humans as social actors, their ideas, values, and politics e. Rama marked it as toread sep 18, simondons claim is that technical activity can be considered as an introduction to veritable social reason, and as an introducer to the sense of individual liberty il yet simondon was a philosopher whose ambitions lay in an indepth renewal of ontology as a process of individuationthat is, how individuals come into being, persist, and transform. Serenella iovino and serpil oppermann, material ecocriticism. Meeting the universe halfway from dymocks online bookstore. The new materialisms work across boundaries of science and the social, nature and culture. The posthuman turn in dave eggers the circle anthropoetics. All, in their various ways, contest the notion of nature as merely the inert scenery against which the humanist adventures of culture are played out maclure 20, p.
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