MEETING THE UNIVERSE HALFWAY (DUKE UNIV PRESS) (PB)

An ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realms, agential realism is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and set of ethics. The starting point for Barad’s analysis is the philosophical framework of quantum physicist Niels Bohr.