Karen Barad

Karen Michelle Barad (/bəˈrɑːd/; born 29 April 1956)[2] is an American feminist theorist, known particularly for her theory of agential realism. She is currently Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3] She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.[4][5] Her research topics include feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of physics, cultural studies of science, and feminist science studies.

Karen Barad
Born
Karen Michelle Barad

(1956-04-29) 29 April 1956
Alma materStony Brook University
Notable work
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Materialism[1]
Feminism
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Main interests
Theoretical physics, feminist theory
Notable ideas
Agential realism
Intra-action

Barad earned her doctorate in theoretical physics at Stony Brook University. Her dissertation presented computational methods for quantifying properties of quarks, and other fermions, and in the framework of lattice gauge theory.

Barad serves on the advisory board for the feminist academic journals Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.[6][7]

Selected bibliography

Books
German
  • Barad, Karen (2012). Agentieller Realismus: Über die Bedeutung materiell-diskursiver Praktiken [Agential Realism: On the Importance of Material-Discursive Practices] (in German). 45. Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518260456.
  • Barad, Karen (2015). Verschränkungen [Entanglements] (in German). Translated by Theodor, Jennifer Sophia. Berlin: Merve. p. 224. ISBN 978-3-88396-353-2.
English
  • Barad, Karen (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822339175.

Chapters in books
German
  • Barad, Karen (2012), "Was ist das Maß des Nichts? Unendlichkeit, Virtualität, Gerechtigkeit [What is the measure of nothingness? Infinity, virtuality, justice] (book number 099)", in Arnheim, Rudolf (ed.), dOCUMENTA (13) 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken [dOCUMENTA (13) 100 notes – 100 thoughts] (in German and English), Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, ISBN 9783775731294
  • Barad, Karen (2013), "Diffraktionen: Differenzen, Kontingenzen und Verschränkungen von Gewicht [Diffraction: differences, contingencies and entanglement of weight]", in Bath, Corinna; Meißner, Hanna; Trinkhaus, Stephan; Völker, Susanne (eds.), Geschlechter Interferenzen Wissensformen - Subjektivierungsweisen - Materialisierungen (in German), Berlin / Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 27–68, ISBN 9783643109040.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
English
  • Barad, Karen (1997), "Meeting the universe halfway: realism and social constructivism without contradiction", in Nelson, Lynn Hankinson; Nelson, Jack (eds.), Feminism, science, and the philosophy of science, Dordrecht Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 161–194, ISBN 9780792346111.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Barad, Karen (1999), "Agential realism: feminist interventions in understanding scientific practices (1998)", in Biagioli, Mario (ed.), The science studies reader, New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–11, ISBN 9780415918688.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Barad, Karen (2000), "Reconceiving scientific literacy as agential literacy, or learning how to intra-act responsibly within the world", in Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey (eds.), Doing science + culture, New York: Routledge, pp. 221–258, ISBN 9780415921121.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Barad, Karen (2001), "Re(con)figuring space, time, and matter", in DeKoven, Marianne (ed.), Feminist locations: global and local, theory and practice, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 75–109, ISBN 9780813529233.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Barad, Karen (2008), "Schrödinger's cat", in Smelik, Anneke; Lykke, Nina (eds.), Bits of life: feminism at the intersections of media, bioscience, and technology, Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 165–176, ISBN 9780295988092.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Barad, Karen (2008), "Queer causation and the ethics of mattering", in Giffney, Noreen; Hird, Myra J. (eds.), Queering the non/human, Aldershot, Hampshire, England Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, pp. 311–338, ISBN 9780754671282.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Journal articles
gollark: I agree utterly. But not the PC bit. I even wrote a blog post about it, which takes real dedication.
gollark: Unlikely.
gollark: Yes, it is HIGHLY apious.
gollark: Intel's tablet and phone efforts were mostly utter bëes and a failure.
gollark: Some version of it.

See also

References
  1. Dolphijn, Rick; Tuin, Iris van der (1 January 2013). New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies. Open Humanites Press. ISBN 9781607852810.
  2. "Barad, Karen Michelle". Library of Congress. Retrieved 20 February 2015. (Karen Barad) data view (theoretical physicist; b. Apr. 29, 1956)
  3. "Feminist Studies: Karen Barad". University of California, Santa Cruz.
  4. Barad, Karen (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822339175.
  5. "Activities: matterrealities (workshop), Karen Barad @ Lancaster, 5-7 November 2007, with art by Fiona Jane Candy, Paul Coulton, Irene Janze, Jennifer Sheridan". Palcom.
  6. "People". catalystjournal.org. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  7. "Masthead". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
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