Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching
implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social
sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical
physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential
realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as
composed of separate natural and social realms, agential realism is
at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics. The starting
point for Barad's analysis is the philosophical framework of
quantum physicist Niels Bohr. Barad extends and partially revises
Bohr's philosophical views in light of current scholarship in
physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science as well as
feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical social theories. In
the process, she significantly reworks understandings of space,
time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity.In
an agential realist account, the world is made of entanglements of
"social" and "natural" agencies, where the distinction between the
two emerges out of specific intra-actions. Intra-activity is an
inexhaustible dynamism that configures and reconfigures relations
of space-time-matter. In explaining intra-activity, Barad reveals
questions about how nature and culture interact and change over
time to be fundamentally misguided. And she reframes understanding
of the nature of scientific and political practices and their
"interrelationship." Thus she pays particular attention to the
responsible practice of science, and she emphasizes changes in the
understanding of political practices, critically reworking Judith
Butler's influential theory of performativity. Finally, Barad uses
agential realism to produce a new interpretation of quantum
physics, demonstrating that agential realism is more than a means
of reflecting on science; it can be used to actually do science.
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