Meeting the universe halfway : quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning / Karen Barad.
| Author/creator | Barad, Karen Michelle author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2007. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 524 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | JSTOR |
| Subjects |
| Series | e-Duke books scholarly collection. ^A1054174 |
| Contents | pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-489) and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Barad, Karen Michelle. Meeting the universe halfway. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780822388128 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 082238812X (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1283022389 |
| ISBN | 9781283022385 |
| ISBN | 9786613022387 |
| ISBN | 6613022381 |
| ISBN | (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 2956956 |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv1210k1g JSTOR |
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