Why read Meeting the Universe Halfway?

Book cover of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

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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…

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1 author picked Meeting the Universe Halfway as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Bronwyn Davies

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I come back to Karen Barad again and again for the theoretical clarity she offers. Her book is like the Holy Bible is to some Christians. I can dip into it again and again and discover new insights. Barad, too, has experienced resistance to her take on quantum physics. But I believe her writing to be essential to the development of a new ethics, that is vital if the Earth is to survive.

Her ethics is based on an understanding that we are not simply, or solely, the ego-driven and greedy individuals of neoliberalism. We are beings in relation with…

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