Karen Barad

Karen Barad, född 29 april 1956, är en amerikansk teoretisk fysiker och feminist.

Barad har skrivit boken Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007). I boken integrerar Barad läsningar av Niels Bohrs teoretiska philosophy-physics, samt bland annat Judith Butlers performativitetsteori och försök på att göra en materialistisk konstruktionism i "Bodies that matter", och Donna Haraways posthumanism. Barad beskriver i boken sin idé Agential Realism och det samlande begreppet "ethico-onto-epistemological". Projektet innebär att det härskande metafysiska paradigmet (representationalism) ersätts av en position där verkligheten uppstår som fenomen, och inte ligger inne i sakerna själva. Kunskap, varande och etik är alla delar av samma materialistisk verklighet, där varje fenomen bildar vad Barad kallar en apparatur (apparatus). Agens flyttas från att vara något som går från en individ till en annan, till att vara något som uppstår i intra-aktionen mellan olika apparaturer. 

År 2016 utnämndes Barad till hedersdoktor vid Göteborgs universitet.

Bibliografi 
 (de) "Diffraktionen: Differenzen, Kontingenzen und Verschränkungen von Gewicht," in Corinna Bath, Hanna Meißner, Stephan Trinkhaus, Susanne Völker (Eds.), Geschlechter Interferenzen: Wissensformen - Subjektivierungsweisen - Materialisierungen. Berlin/ Münster: Lit, 2013, S. 27-68. 

 (de) "Agentieller Realismus. Über die Bedeutung materiell-diskursiver Praktiken". Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2012. Edition Unseld, Band 45. 

 (en) "What is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice / Was ist das Maß des Nichts? Unendlichkeit, Virtualität, Gerechtigkeit," in dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken, Book Nº099, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012. . .  

 (en) "On Touching - The Inhuman That Therefore I Am," in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 23(3): 206-223.

 (en) "Nature's Queer Performativity" [the authorized version], in: Kvinder, Køn og forskning/ Women, Gender and Research, Copenhagen, No. 1-2 (2012) Feminist Materialisms, pp. 25-53. pdf

 (en) "Queer Causation and the Ethics of Mattering,” in Queering the Non/Human, edited by Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird. Ashgate Press (Queer Interventions Book Series), 2008.

 (en) "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.

 (en) Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

 (en) "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 3, Spring 2003.

 (en) "Re(con)figuring Space, Time, and Matter," in Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, edited by Marianne DeKoven. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

 (en) "Performing Culture / Performing Nature: Using the Piezoelectric Crystal of Ultrasound Technologies as a Transducer Between Science Studies and Queer Theories," in Digital Anatomy, edited by Christina Lammar, Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2001.

 (en) "Scientific Literacy → Agential Literacy = (Learning + Doing) Science Responsibly," in Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation, edited by Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa Weasel. NY: Routledge Press. (Abridged version of article published in Doing Culture + Science), 2001.

 (en) "Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy, or Learning How to Intra-act Responsibly Within the World," in Doing Culture + Science, edited by Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek, NY: Routledge Press, 2000.

 (en) "Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices," in The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli, NY: Routledge Press, 1998.

 (en) "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality," in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1998.

 (en) "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Constructivism Without Contradiction," in Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, ed. Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, Dordecht, Holland: Kluwer Press, 1996.

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Amerikanska feminister
Amerikanska fysiker under 2000-talet
Amerikanska filosofer under 2000-talet
Födda 1956
Levande personer
Kvinnor
Hedersdoktorer vid Göteborgs universitet