Meeting the universe halfway quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning / Karen Barad.
| Author/creator | Barad, Karen Michelle |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, |
| Description | xiii, 524 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-489) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006027826 |
| ISBN | 0822339013 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822339014 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 082233917X (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822339175 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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