Meeting the universe halfway : quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning / Karen Barad.
By: Barad, Karen Michelle
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BookSeries: Meeting the universe halfway. Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press , 2006Description: xiii, 524 pages 25 cm.ISBN: 0822339013 (acidfree paper); 9780822339014 (acidfree paper); 082233917X (pbk. : acidfree paper); 9780822339175 (pbk. : acidfree paper).Subject(s): Physics -- Philosophy | Quantum theory -- Philosophy | Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- Philosophy | Realism -- Philosophy | Relativity (Physics) -- Philosophy | Matter -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 530.1201 Online resources: Table of contents only Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction: the science and ethics of mattering -- Meeting the universe halfway -- Diffractions: differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics: quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality -- Agential realism: how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real: technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality -- Spacetime re(con)figurings: naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power -- Quantum entanglements: experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature -- The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment, by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's Principle of Complementarity and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
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