Barad meeting the universe halfway6/28/2023 Apparatuses are 'material-discursive' in that they produce determinate meanings and material beings while simultaneously excluding the production of others. Rather, they are the condition of possibility of 'humans' and 'non-humans', not merely as ideational concepts, but in their materiality. Thus, apparatuses, which produce phenomena, are not assemblages of humans and nonhumans (as in actor-network theory). Intra-action, a neologism introduced by Barad, signals an important challenge to individualist metaphysics.įor Barad, phenomena or objects do not precede their interaction, rather, 'objects' emerge through particular intra-actions. Agential realism is a theory proposed by Karen Barad, in which the universe comprises phenomena which are "the ontological inseparability of intra-acting agencies".
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