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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Agential Realism"”.
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Agential realism and the “female harpist”: The relational ontology of genderharp in Georges Aperghis’ Fidélité (1982)
… scholar Karen Barad’s critical theories (agential realism, posthumanist performativity, posthumanism, new materialism) and Greek-French composer Georges Aperghis’ solo harp work Fidélité: pour harpiste seule regardée par un homme (“for female harpist watched by a man”) creates new …
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Forming of economies of wellbeing through responsive practice in everyday life
… key concepts in the theory of ‘Entanglement and Agential Realism’ as developed by Karen Barad. By experiential I am referring to my own experience of working as an economist and then being reflexive by relating these experiences to wider traditions of thought This experiential interpretation of …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… binary) and using posthuman new materialism (agential realism) as a theoretical framework this study engages with the constitution of myriad binaries, including the male/female, man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual, sex/gender, human/nonhuman and mind/body binaries. Through a diffractive reading …
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Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism
… the philosophical metaphysics of Karen Barad's Agential Realism. I argue that we can only produce a future where bodymind alteration is acceptable if we first value different bodymind arrangements. I argue both that we cannot consider ourselves individuals, separate from the world or each other, …
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Disability as an entanglement: A new materialist reimagination of disability
… The conceptual framework is formed from agential realism (Barad), citational chains and lines of flight (Bergson / Butler, as used by Davies), performativity (Butler), affect (Wetherell), desiring silence (Jackson and Mazzei), and disability pride (Parsons). Datum was generated through a …
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Teacher identity, activism, and empowerment: Entanglements with climate in Aotearoa, New Zealand
… indeterminism in quantum mechanics-inspired agential realism.
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Diffracting digital public space(s) : matters and in-matters
… is a diffractive experiment, inspired by the agential realism of Karen Barad that allowed me to consider digital public space(s) through philosophies of technology, design and creative practices and with fictional stories that become waves of unruly phenomena from within. The research assumes …
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Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration of the Emergence of Learning
… dissertation, drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism (2007), I explore the learning ecology as a “specific material configuration” that produces learning, an emergent, “onto-epistemological” phenomenon of entangled being-knowing. I offer a new materialist approach to the learning …
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Agency is molecular: moved by being moved to moving or co-constitution in intra-active knowledge production
… shift from within. The apparatus definitions of Agential Realism gather insights through agential cuts that provide a transient exteriority-within, allowing modifying the bounds of knowing from within. The primary chapters examine the impact of practicing through theory and coalesce into a final …
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Embodied Becomings of Women in Yoga: A Postqualitative Pursuit
… that incorporated such concepts as the rhizome, agential realism, affective intensities, and agentic assemblages. These concepts replaced more traditional qualitative methodologies as the research became centred in posthumanist theories that engaged back and forth interaction with participants …
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Be/ing Grace/d. A phenomenological exploration of spiritual encounters with the more-than-human natural world in-crisis
… metaphysics and aspects of Karen Barad’s (2007) Agential Realism a metaphysics of grace is explored via ‘entanglement’, ‘intra-action’ and ‘mattering’. The discussion follows a dis/jointed journey in/out troubling classical dualities of spiritual/material, life/death, subject/object, person/other …
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The Problem of Being the Problem: creating practice-based fieldworking along climate vulnerable coastlines
… phenomena, following Karen Barad’s writings on agential realism (Barad, 2003). The field work involves regular, repeated approaches to the habitats of very local marine caves, keeping to the rhythms of the tides while being sensitive to ecosystem temporalities. The artworks created are guided, …
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Live Materials: Womens Work, Pauline Oliveros & the feminist performance score
… the theoretical framework of Karen Barad’s agential realism, which foregrounds the fundamental indeterminacy of wave/particle duality, and I argue that this framework can be read throughout, from the formal duality of the score itself as both written text and live performance, to the …
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Philosophical enquiry and autism: story/ing/ied bags of unexpected human and more-than-human encounters in speech-language therapy and classroom spaces
… on critical posthumanism, notably Karen Barad's Agential Realism, the study asks: how might the community of philosophical enquiry be put to work with children who present with significant challenges to enquiry-based learning? How can subjectivity for autistic children be re-configured outside of …
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Anticipatory Realism: Constructions of Futures and Regimes of Prediction in Contemporary Post-cinematic Art
… of post-cinematic art can expose the realisms that govern regimes of prediction. Three cultural techniques of anticipation and their use as artistic strategies in post-cinematic art are theorized: enactment, soft montage and rendering. Each of these techniques is examined in its …
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The performance of information systems implementation outcomes: the case of an enterprise system implementation in a South African University
… adopted an explanatory purpose guided by the agential realism theoretical perspective. This study employed the actor-network theory as a theoretical lens because it allows researchers to examine the complex network of relationships and intra-actions that shape the performance of IS …