Karen Barad

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Karen Barad (born April 29, 1956 ) is a physicist specializing in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory . Barad teaches Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and Intellectual History at the University of California, Santa Cruz .

Scientific career

Barad graduated from Brandeis University and received his PhD from the State University of New York . She was Professor of Women's Studies and Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts from 1999 to 2005 and has been Professor of Feminist Studies since 2005 . She also works as a consultant for the feminist scientific journals Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society .

Research and conception

Her main research interests are Feminist Theory , Theoretical Physics , Philosophy of Physics , Quantum Mechanics , Epistemology , Ontology , Cultural Studies of Science and Feminist Science Studies .

In their feminist framework concept of an "Agential Realism" it is about the inseparability of being and knowledge . So Barad, the scientific-disciplinary distinction between the theory of knowledge (epistemology) and the doctrine of being (ontology) in question. With their concept of "Agential Realism", which they u. a. based on Niels Bohr's physics philosophy, she introduces the neologism “Intra-Action”. Intra-action stands for a fundamental questioning of a metaphysics based on autonomous individuals. In Barad's theory, objects or phenomena do not exist outside or in front of an interaction. Rather, objects only emerge from “intra-actions”. Unlike the actor-network theory of Bruno Latour are "machines" that produce the phenomena, not a network of humans and non-human, but a condition of the possibility of "people" and "non-humans" - not just as ideal concepts, but in their materiality.

Fonts

  • (de) 2015: Entanglements. Translated from English by Jennifer Sophia Theodor. Merve, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-88396-353-2 .
  • (de) 2013: Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements of Weight. In: Corinna Bath, Hanna Meißner, Stephan Trinkhaus, Susanne Völker (eds.): Gender Interferences: Forms of Knowledge - Modes of Subjectivation - Materializations. Lit, Berlin / Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-10904-0 , pp. 27-68
  • (de) 2012: Agent Realism. About the importance of material discursive practices. Translated from the English by Jürgen Schröder. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-26045-6 .
  • (en / de) 2012: What is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice / What is the measure of nothing? Infinity, virtuality, justice. Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3129-4 .
  • (en) 2012: On Touching - The Inhuman That Therefore I Am. In: differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies , 23 (3): 206-223.
  • (en) 2012: Nature's Queer Performativity . In: Kvinder, Køn og forskning / Women, Gender and Research , Copenhagen, No. 1-2 (2012) Feminist Materialisms , pp. 25-53.
  • (en) 2010: Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis / continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come . In: Derrida Today , Nov 2010, Vol. 3, No. 2, 240-268.
  • (en) 2008: Queer Causation and the Ethics of Mattering. In: Queering the Non / Human , edited by Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird. Ashgate Press (Queer Interventions Book Series), 2008. ISBN 978-0-7546-7128-2 .
  • (en) 2008: Schrödinger's Cat. In: Bits of Life: Feminism and the New Cultures of Media and Technoscience , edited by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-295-99033-0 .
  • (en) 2007: Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-3901-4 , ISBN 978-0-8223-3917-5 .
  • (en) 2003: Posthumanist Performativity. Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter. In: Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society . Volume 28, No. 3, Spring 2003.
  • (en) 2001: Re (con) figuring Space, Time, and Matter . In: Marianne DeKoven (Ed.): Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2001, ISBN 0-8135-2922-0 . ISBN 0-8135-2923-9 .
  • (en) 2001: Performing Culture / Performing Nature: Using the Piezoelectric Crystal of Ultrasound Technologies as a Transducer Between Science Studies and Queer Theories. In: Christina Lammar (Ed.): Digital Anatomy . Turia & Kant, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85132-293-2 .

Interviews

  • Intra-active Entanglements - An Interview with Karen Barad (2012), by Malou Juelskjær and Nete Schwennesen. In: Kvinder, Køn og forskning / Women, Gender and Research (Copenhagen) 1-2, pp. 10–24.
  • Interview of Karen Barad (2012), by Adam Kleinmann. In: Special dOCUMENTA (13) Issue of Mousse Magazine (Milan, Italy), Summer 2012.

literature

  • Corinna Bath, Hanna Meißner, Stephan Trinkhaus, Susanne Völker (eds.): Gender interference: forms of knowledge - modes of subjectification - materializations. Berlin / Münster: Lit, 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-10904-0 . Table of contents linked here , pdf.
    • Corinna Bath, Semantic Web and Linked Open Data: From the analysis of technical developments to "Diffractive Design." Pp. 69-116
    • Hanna Meißner, feminist social criticism as an onto-epistemological project. Pp. 163-208
    • Stephan Trinkhaus, Diffraction as a subordinate agency. Some reflections on reflexivity and relationality. Pp. 117-162
    • Susanne Völker, (describing) precarious lives: classifications, affects, interferences. Pp. 209-253

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karen Barad: Entanglements. Merve, Berlin 2015, 2nd cover page.
  2. ^ Science & Justice: The Trouble and the Promise | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience . ( catalystjournal.org [accessed August 5, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Masthead. In: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Barad, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barad, Karen Michelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1956