Feminist science - Karen Barad (Video)

In this video, we consider the work of a feminist theorist Professor Karen Barad, an American gender studies professor, known particularly for her theory of agential realism, she is currently a Professor of Feminist Studies and Philosophy at the University of California, her publications include “Meeting the Universe Halfway” and “What is the Measure of Nothingness”, Barad can be described as a leading light within the feminist science community and is often cited in feminist publications and papers, her books and essays are often required reading in gender studies courses, in this video we take a somewhat unsympathetic overview of her work. References and links ------------------------------------------ Karen Barad – Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_B... Karen Barad – Faculty entry UCSC https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/facu... Sean Carroll - The Particle at the End of the Universe (RI Lecture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwdY7... Close Reading Karen Barad - University of Leeds (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Tsx... Double Slit experiment – Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-... Wave function collapse – Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_fu... Thomas Young - Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...) Loudspeaker – Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspe... Support This Channel ------------------------------------------------------- ▶Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shinobiyaka ▶Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuK... ▶Twitter: https://twitter.com/yakashinobi ▶Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shinobiyaka

Feminist Theory Workshop Keynote - Karen Barad (Talk)

Feminist Theory Workshop Keynote - Karen Barad: Re-membering the Future, Re(con)figuring the Past: Temporality, Materiality, and Justice-to-Come

The Transversality of New Materialism | Iris van der Tuin & Rick Dolphijn (Article)

Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574042.2010.488377

Abstract

This article centres around three ways in which ‘new materialism’ or ‘neomaterialism’—terms coined by DeLanda and Braidotti in the second half of the 1990s—can be called ‘transversal’. New materialism is a cultural theory that does not privilege culture, but focuses on what Haraway would call ‘naturecultures’. It explores a monist perspective of the human being, disposed of the dualisms that have dominated the humanities until today, by giving special attention to matter, as it has been so much neglected by dualist thought. New materialism, a cultural theory inspired by the thoughts of Deleuze, that spurs a renewed interest in philosophers such as Spinoza and Leibniz, shows how cultured humans are always already in nature, and how nature is necessarily cultured, how the mind is always already material, and how matter is necessarily something of the mind. New materialism opposes the transcendental and humanist (dualist) traditions that are haunting a cultural theory that is standing on the brink of both the modern and the post-postmodern era. The transcendental and humanist traditions, which are manifold yet consistently predicated on dualist structures, continue to stir debates that have a stifling effect on the field (think of the feminist polemic concerning the failed materialism in the work of Butler, and of the Saussurian/Lacanian linguistic heritage in media and cultural studies). New materialism allows for the conceptualisation of the travelling of the fluxes of matter and mind, body and soul, nature and culture, and opens up active theory formation. The three transversalities concern disciplinarity, paradigms and the spatiotemporality of theory.

Keywords: (anti-)representationalism, cultural theory, feminist theory, matter, neomaterialism, new materialism