Karen Barad

Karen Barad ( born April 29, 1956) is a professor at the Feminist Studies Faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Her research interests are feminist theory, theoretical physics, philosophy of physics, quantum mechanics, epistemology, ontology, Cultural Studies of Science and Feminist Science Studies.

In her feminist conceptual framework of agential Realism is about the inseparability of being and knowing. Barad thus represents the scientific- disciplinary distinction between the theory of knowledge ( epistemology ) and the theory of being (ontology ) in question. Your agential Realism has, inter alia, developed on the basis of Niels Bohr's philosophy physics.

Scientific career

Barad studied at Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York. She was 1999-2005 Professor of Women 's Studies and Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and is since 2005 Professor of Feminist Studies.

Writings

• (de) 2013: diffractions: differences, contingencies and entanglements of weight. In: Corinna Bath, Hanna Meissner, Stephan drinking house, Susanne Peoples ( ed.): Gender interference: forms of knowledge - Subjectivity - materializations. Berlin / Münster: Lit, 2013, pp. 27-68. ISBN 978-3-643-10904-0
• (de) 2012: Agentieller realism. About the importance of substantive discursive practices. Translated from English by Jürgen Schröder. Berlin:. Suhrkamp, ​​2012 Edition Unseld, Volume 45 ISBN 978-3-518-26045-6
• (en / de ) 2012: What is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice / what is the measure of nothingness? Infinity, virtuality, justice. Book No. 99 of the series Documenta (13 ): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts / 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012 ISBN 978-3-7757-3129-4.
• (s) 2012: On Touching - The Inhuman That Therefore I Am. In: differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 23 (3): 206-223.
• (s) 2012: Nature's Queer Performativity [the authorized version]. In: Kvinder, Kon above Forskning / Women, Gender and Research, Copenhagen, no. 1-2 ( 2012) Feminist Materialisms, pp. 25-53. pdf
• (s ) 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.
• (s) 2008: Queer Causation and the Ethics of mat ring. In: Queering the Non / Human, edited by Noreen and Myra J. Hird Giffney. Ashgate Press ( Queer Interventions Book Series ), 2008. ISBN 978-0-7546-7128-2
• (s) 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.
• (s) 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
• (s) 2003: post- humanist 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.
• (s) 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
• (s) 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, Kon above Forskning / Women, Gender and Research ( Copenhagen ) 1-2, pp. 10-24.