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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Karen Barad"”.
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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
… I use 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. …
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Conoscenza, Soggetti, Tecnologie: una genealogia del post-umano
… tecnologie. 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- …
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Posthuman Literacy Practices in a Reggio-inspired South African school
… philosophers 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, …
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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, …
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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 …
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The crystal world: executing a new media materialism
… media 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 …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… of Mieke 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 …
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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 …
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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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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… theorists such as Stacy Alaimo, Elizabeth Grosz, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, this study offers close readings of prose and visual media – novels, anime shows, graphic novels, and a picturebook – produced in America and Japan. Chapter 1 reads Kelly Barnhill’s novel *The Girl Who Drank the Moon* …
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‘Undergoing' as posthuman literacy research in an in/formal settlement primary school in South Africa
… philosophies of Tim Ingold, Rosi Braidotti and Karen Barad. Eight years later, having moved back to South Africa, my research continued in an in/formal settlement government school where I was employed as a literacy support teacher. Inspired by Murris and Haynes' Philosophy with Picturebooks …
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Elastic design. Tools for alternative understandings
… reality. 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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Foucault's brain: discourse, matter, and the possibility of a plastic genealogy
… For the 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 …
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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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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
… theorists relevant to material agency (including Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Levi R. Bryant, Susan Kelly, Lambros Malafouris and Bruno Latour), the limitations of the ‘human-biased’ view of DiY culture are highlighted and the emphasis is shifted from DiY participatory culture as a social phenomenon …
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Forming of economies of wellbeing through responsive practice in everyday life
… 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 ‘entanglement’ highlights how …
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The performative experiment : a polylogue to practice the malleability of an aesthetic and spatial sense of self
… in the terms of physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad, extends agency to the nonhuman by prefiguring neither human nor nonhuman in interactions. Both situated cognition and posthumanism are engendering new aesthetic and spatial abilities that exemplify the multiplicity and malleability of …
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An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism
… to 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 …
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Diffracting digital public space(s) : matters and in-matters
… 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 an ontological move …
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'No-body' is my friend: Cultural considerations of young children's 'imaginary companions'
… work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Karen Barad, in particular. An additional exploration considers the author’s own situated experiences of parenting a child who during her childhood years had companions that were unseen to the author. The final analysis, based on a small selection …
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