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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Barad"”.
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Foucault's brain: discourse, matter, and the possibility of a plastic genealogy
… set of critics taken up here, including Karen Barad, Beatrice Han, David Harvey, and Catherine Malabou, the problematic ambiguity in Foucault's work crystallizes in the figure of the individual and the question of how genealogy handles the non-discursive. To Han, and differently to Harvey, …
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Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
… in a continuous process of becoming, Karen Barad explores the constant creation of entities through intra-action, and Erwin Schrӧdinger quantifies the connection between the quantum and the macroscopic world. To add on to this discourse, I argue that ontological connections can be formed …
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minoritarian ecologies: performance before a more-than-human world
… creates a ‘material-discursive entanglement’ (Barad, 2007) of bodies and concepts. In this posthuman continuum of practice, I argue that eco-aesthetics is an ethico-political disposition of fostering relations of accountability and responsibility with the bodies implicated in performance, …
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Reading Bernstein and Critical Posthumanism Diffractively Through One Another: Intra-activity Pedagogy
… has been developed by Donna Haraway and Karen Barad as a methodology to read two (or more) different thoughts or works without criticism. The diffractive methodology allows us to see and reinforce connections which seemly opposed to each other (Van der Tuin, 2011:27). This is based on the …
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Creative Practice: How Communities were ‘made’ at Çatalhöyük
… Utilising the work of Bennett (2010a), Barad (2003, 2007, 2012), and Gell (1998) I formulate a critically-informed but practically embedded methodology that finds material “phenomena” (Barad 2003) at the settlement. Çatalhöyük offers a particularly unique example of social organisation …
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Agency is molecular: moved by being moved to moving or co-constitution in intra-active knowledge production
… (Haraway) and relational objectivity (Barad) are particularly suitable tools for a 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. …
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Elastic design. Tools for alternative understandings
… Such ideas are inherent in the work of Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour. In drawing on Barad s reconceptualisation of measurement through the indeterminacy found in quantum physics, elasticity is presented as the fundamental component of the project. The application of Elastic …
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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
… the work of Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, Karen Barad, and Anna Tsing to explore how three contemporary British novelists—Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith—deal with the representational and ethical challenges of writing about nature and climate change within the Anthropocene. The …
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Thinking with the Posts: Towards a New Understanding of Identity Formation and Agency of Aspiring Latina Leaders
… performativity and the new materialist work of Barad (2007), Coole and Frost (2010), Pickering (1993), and others as a theoretical framework, this dissertation presents three articles that demonstrate the new ways to envisage the agency of human, nonhuman, and material bodies in the educational …
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Hacking Antarctica
… (L ´ evi-Strauss 1968), and diffraction (Barad 2007). The research expands on the taxonomies of the polar to reconsider the Antarctic as a border and periphery, bringing a conjunction of hacking methods and site-specific art that enables a performative causality with which to study the …
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An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism
… New materialist philosophy associated with Karen Barad (2007), which is a theoretical framework in which entities are not seen as being determined before the interactions: their qualities, capacities, and boundaries emerge from the interplay with matter within a phenomenon. New materialism is …
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Conoscenza, Soggetti, Tecnologie: una genealogia del post-umano
… Questo rapporto definisce quello che Karen Barad ha diversamente chiamato onto-epistemologia: l’inscindibilità tra le forme dell’essere e le forme del conoscere. All’interno di questo vasto tema ho articolato una saldatura tra gli Science and Technology Studies di ispirazione Actor- Network …
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Posthuman Literacy Practices in a Reggio-inspired South African school
… and scientists Donna Haraway and Karen Barad. The new theorypractice produced reconfigures literacy as an assemblage which includes human and nonhuman in an entangled, intra-acting becoming-together. This includes children, no longer understood as individual entities in the world, but as …
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Gutter Pop
… theorists Timothy Morton, Jane Bennett, Karen Barad, and Elizabeth Grosz. My engagement with wax explores a mediated materiality shaped by haptic, synthetic, and digital interventions. These interventions extend reflections on the tentative co-existence of the human and non-human world, and …
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An Ethics of Light: The Affective Turn of Contemporary Practices
… thinking about light by Luce Irigaray and Karen Barad, to examine the agency of light in relation to practices and experience. In so doing, this thesis argues that an ethics of light provides a useful system of analysis to rethink light in the contemporary artistic context and contributes to a …
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Interpretive Communities at work and play in the built environment
… co-production, this matter/meaning entanglement (Barad 2007; Hodder 2012) by exploring the ‘as practiced’ imprint of law and hobbies upon the built environment. The concern is to show both the multiplicity and the robustness of particular ways of engaging with such structures and places amongst …
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The crystal world: executing a new media materialism
… that underpins new media art. Following Karen Barad, the research employs, a diffractive methodology - a practice of presenting computational materiality through insights and traditions while paying attention to their differences, including the material effects of their constitutive exclusions …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… Bal, Mikhail Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Karen Barad, Gaston Bachelard and others to reveal new insights. In addition the research broadens out heritages of meaning carried by clay as an art medium, unearthing wider narrational landscapes implicit in the bowl texts and praxis, introducing new …
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A Queering of Memory, Temporality, Subjectivity: Subversive Methods in Audiovisual Practice
… by theories of diffraction (Haraway: 1991, 1997; Barad: 2007, 2010, 2014) which are reconfigured with a much-needed aural sensibility (Lipari: 2014; Goh: 2017). Finally, the disruptive and transformative potential of Interference is considered through the metaphor of the wave (Rodgers: 2010, 2016) …
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intersect/surface/body: A Choreographic View of Drawing
… in the work of Harman (2013), Bennet (2010) and Barad (2013) and a reconsideration of horizontality through Steinberg’s notion of the ‘flatbed picture plane’ (1972) which informs a choreographic view of drawing in relation to orientation and surface distribution. The thesis is further …
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