Intra-activity is an inexhaustible dynamism that configures and reconfigures relations of space-time-matter. 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. In the process, she significantly reworks understandings of space, time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity. 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. The starting point for Barad's analysis is the philosophical framework of quantum physicist Niels Bohr. 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. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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