![]() ![]() Because specific practices of mattering have ethical consequences, excluding other kinds of mattering, onto-epistemological practices are always in turn onto-ethico-epistemological. For this, Barad employs the term onto-epistemology. Barad's agential realism is at once an epistemology (theory of knowing), an ontology (theory of being), and an ethics. Barad takes their inspiration from physicist Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum physics. ![]() What it means to matter is therefore always material-discursive. ![]() Apparatuses are 'material-discursive' in that they produce determinate meanings and material beings while simultaneously excluding the production of others. Rather, they are the condition of possibility of 'humans' and 'non-humans', not merely as ideational concepts, but in their materiality. Thus, apparatuses, which produce phenomena, are not assemblages of humans and nonhumans (as in actor-network theory). Intra-action, a neologism introduced by Barad, signals an important challenge to individualist metaphysics.įor Barad, phenomena or objects do not precede their interaction, rather, 'objects' emerge through particular intra-actions. Agential realism is a theory proposed by Karen Barad, in which the universe comprises phenomena which are "the ontological inseparability of intra-acting agencies". ![]()
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