Meeting the universe halfway quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning
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.
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
2007, ©2007
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I. Entangled Beginnings
- Introduction. The Science and Ethics of Mattering
- One. Meeting the Universe Halfway
- Two. Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements That Matter
- Part II. Intra-actions Matter
- Three. Niels Bohr's Philosophy-Physics: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Knowledge and Reality
- Four. Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter
- Part III. Entanglements and Re(con)figurations
- Five. Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality
- Six. Spacetime Re(con)figurings: Naturalcultural Forces and Changing Topologies of Power
- Seven. Quantum Entanglements: Experimental Metaphysics and the Nature of Nature
- Eight. The Ontology of Knowing, the Intra-activity of Becoming, and the Ethics of Mattering
- Appendix A. Cascade Experiment, by Alice Fulton
- Appendix B. The Uncertainty Principle Is Not the Basis of Bohr's Complementarity
- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the Relationship between Bohr's Principle of Complementarity and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
- Notes
- References
- Index