Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Daniel Sparwath - GoodreadsBarad offers an interesting and stimulating perspective on the classical problem of ontology and subject-object relations within philosophy. Not being satisfied with either deconstructivism or the ... Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Joseph Mccaleb - GoodreadsBarad's ambitious endeavor is indicated in these lines: “I call my proposed ontoepistemological framework 'agential realism.' Importantly, agential realism rejects the notion of a correspondence ... Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Leila Breene - GoodreadsEarth shattering. A new paradigm. Am trying to absorb. Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Scott Neigh - GoodreadsI read some of this for a course last term plus a bit more than that, but I haven't come close to finishing it. I intend to return to it at some point...it's very important work, I think, but also ... Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Alex - GoodreadsAgential realism is the way of the future. And the present. Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Andrei Ștefănucă - GoodreadsMeeting the Universe Halfway is a complete account of quantum physics viewed from a diffractive perspective and with an agential realist focus in mind. The background, historical and theoretical ... Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Liesa - GoodreadsGoing back and forth between writing my thesis and then reading Karen Barad is like Imagining I am an ocean, and then seeing the ocean and realizing I am a little tide pool. :^) She is brilliant. Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - Hafsa - GoodreadsFeminist quantum physics. Kinda went over my head along with Haraway's book "Modest Witness" but made a lot more sense when our professor clarified it in my feminist theory class. Basically deconstructs assumptions in quantum physics that dilineates matter/meaning, subject/object, etc. Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - John - GoodreadsThis is one of the greatest philosophical books I have ever read. Karen Barad draws on figures such as Judith Bulter, Donna Haraway, and Michel Foucault to investigate the ontological implications of ... Read full review
Review: Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
User Review - DJ - GoodreadsFeminist propaganda mixed with possible misextrapolations from physics sounds worse than water torture, but this book comes highly recommended from John Kowalko, so I may give it a chance. Read full review
