Journal articles: 'Agential realism'

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Sinquefield-Kangas, Rachel, Antti Rajala, and Kristiina Kumpulainen. "Exploring empathy performativity in students’ video artworks." International Journal of Education Through Art 18, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eta_00091_1.

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This article examines events of empathy as they occur during artmaking using the lens of agential realism. We do this to trouble more traditional psychological constructs of empathy and, instead, rethink it as performative and relational. Drawing on new materialisms and Karen Barad’s ‘agential realism’, we do not treat artmaking, young people and empathy in any hierarchy but want to understand how these come together as ‘things-in-phenomena’. Written recountings of a video artwork are used in mapping the entanglements of cats and dogs with three Finnish high-school girls as they answer the question ‘what is empathy?’. The study shows how objects/materials/matter(s) are agentic in co-constituting conditions invocative of empathy phenomena during artmaking. We conclude by suggesting that an agential realist account of art and empathy calls for art educators to pay close attention to objects/materials/matter(s) in their heterogenous connections.

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Koponen, Ismo. "Quantum physical insights of agential realism within new materialism in science education:." Nordic Studies in Science Education 20, no. 1 (April 23, 2024): 44–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nordina.9776.

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Barad’s agential realism has recently been evoked as a theoretical viewpoint for science education and science education research in approaches that emphasize the role of materiality and matter as a key aspect of learning science. Barad’s agential realism is underpinned by their specific ways of reading quantum physics, its interpretations and, in general, contemplations of the quantum nature of existence. Agential realism is an ontological as well as an epistemological (onto-epistemological) metaphysical position that strives to dissolve the boundaries between subjects and objects, and leaves little room for traditional subject-centered epistemological views (like constructivism) of learning. A closer look is warranted at how the quantum physics underpinnings of agential realism, which are clearly very important for it, appear in its current applications in new materialism within science education research. This critical commentary claims that, in such a context, the conceptualization of learning and educational phenomena derives little if any advantage or practical utility from the quantum physics-inspired metaphysics of agential realism; only metaphorical talk remains. Consequently, we need to be aware of the limited power and plausibility of the quantum-inspired contemplations contained in agential realism if it is adopted as a theoretical viewpoint for science education and science education research.

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Wohlwend, Karen E., Kylie A. Peppler, Anna Keune, and Naomi Thompson. "Making sense and nonsense: Comparing mediated discourse and agential realist approaches to materiality in a preschool makerspace." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 17, no. 3 (August 12, 2017): 444–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468798417712066.

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Two approaches to materiality (i.e. mediated discourse and agential realism) are compared to explore their usefulness in tracking literacies in action and artefacts produced during a play and design activity in a preschool makerspace. Mediated discourse analysis has relied on linguistic framing and social semiotics to make sense of multimodality. Can a multimodal lens grounded in embodied histories of meaning-making unpack sensory exploration, silly repetition and free-wheeling nonsense in children’s playdough play? Barad’s agential realism seems promising for unpacking the sensory and the emergent produced in the materiality, fluidity and messiness of entangled bodies and things in a makerspace. We compare key constructs of mediated discourse and agential realism, comparing interaction and intra-action in video excerpts from two weeks of play with playdough electronics kits in three early childhood classrooms in a US university childcare centre. Mediated discourse analysis of multimodality identified collaborative interaction among players in a small group and tracked a collective flow of materialized knowledge that moved through children’s sharing and collaboration. Agential realism tracked intra-actions among bodies, materials and spaces as transitory becomings and undoings that rupture definitions of sense-making as strategic design that manipulates materials into artefacts or as play that resemiotizes materials into roles and props in dramatized narratives.

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Holford, W. David. "An agential realist perspective on the construction and flow of knowledge: the case of dynamic entanglement and “cuts” within an aircraft engine manufacturing workplace." Journal of Knowledge Management 22, no. 7 (October 8, 2018): 1442–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jkm-08-2017-0342.

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Purpose This paper aims to show agential realism as the basis for a pertinent framework with regard to the entwined, on-going and interpretative aspects of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The knowledge flow phenomenon in the form of entanglement and agential “cuts” within the workplace is studied and described across a phenomenological ethnographic case study of two workgroups within an aircraft engine manufacturing context. Findings The boundary construction phenomenon is a key process helping us to depict knowledge entanglement (tacit and explicit) across dialogue and non-verbal actions. Dialogue brings forth the aspect of knowledge as interpretations or “cuts.” A phenomenological analysis allows us to identify and describe various levels of tacit–explicit knowledge entanglement depending on the mode of coping at hand. Also highlighted was the importance of heuristics carried out by knowledge experts, often in the form of abduction (i.e. leading to rules of thumb). Research limitations/implications It is acknowledged that the relatively narrow context of the empirical work limits the ability to generalize the findings and arguments. As such, additional work is required to investigate the validity of the findings across a wider spectrum of workgroup contexts. Practical implications Agential realism allows for the analysis of organizations as a world of practice and actions, whereby long-established categories can be requestioned and challenged with the aim of sharing the full richness and benefit of embodied knowledge between human actors. Originality/value Ethnographic descriptions of the entwined nature of tacit and explicit knowledge, the embodied and activity-based dimension of knowledge and learning, as well as the characteristic of knowledge as possession, correspond well to an agential realist concept of phenomenon, entanglement and cuts. Furthermore, agential realism offers the opportunity to view the workplace as individuals (or groups) who act out embodied tacit-explicit knowledge in conjunction with non-human entities (such as objects, as well as communication and information technologies), with the latter acting as enhancers of knowledge creation and sharing.

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Paramonov, Andrei A. "Karen Barad’s agential realism and Niels Bohr’s conceptualism." Philosophy Journal 15, no. 3 (August 29, 2022): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2072-0726-2022-15-3-100-112.

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the human and social sciences towards contemporary natural science. In this regard, we can talk about a kind of “natural sciences turn” in these fields of knowledge. It is not just a matter of an active use of terminological and ideological baggage from the arsenal of natural sciences, but we can even talk about direct borrowing of argumentation. American researcher Karen Barad is one of the leading figures of this movement. Barad connects her theoretical conception of agential realism directly with quantum mechanics in its interpretation proposed by Niels Bohr. The article compares some of the key concepts of the Bohr vision of quantum mechanics, such as phenomenon, agency of observation with the reading acquired by these concepts in Barad’s agential realism. On a comparative analysis of the interpretation of these concepts by Bohr and Barad a number of problematic points of the concept of agential realism are revealed.

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Glenn, Linda MacDonald, and George Dvorsky. "Dignity and Agential Realism: Human, Posthuman, and Nonhuman." American Journal of Bioethics 10, no. 7 (June 30, 2010): 57–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161003686548.

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Harman, Graham. "Agential and Speculative Realism: Remarks on Barad's Ontology." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 30 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/030.e10.

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Ko, Mi-Suk. "Barad’s Agential Realism and the Education of Justice." Korean Society for the Study of Moral Education 34, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 231–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17715/jme.2022.9.34.4.231.

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Ko, Mi-Suk. "Barad’s Agential Realism and the Education of Justice." Korean Society for the Study of Moral Education 34, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 231–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17715/jme.2022.12.34.4.231.

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Rhee, Jeesun. "Matter and Reality in Karen Barad’s Agential Realism." Korean Feminist Philosophy 38 (November 30, 2022): 117–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17316/kfp.2022.11.38.117.

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Prophet, Jane, and Helen Pritchard. "Performative Apparatus and Diffractive Practices: An Account of Artificial Life Art." Artificial Life 21, no. 3 (August 2015): 332–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00174.

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Drawing on our own art/science practices and a series of interviews with artificial life practitioners, we explore the entanglement of developments at the artistic edges of artificial life. We start by defining key terms from Karen Barad's agential realism. We then diffractively read artificial life together with agential realism to discuss the potential for interventions in the field. Through a discussion of artificial life computer simulations, ideas of agency are problematized, and artificial life's single purposeful actor, the agent, is replaced by agential, an adjective denoting a relationship rather than a subject-object duality. We then seek to reinterpret the difficult-to-define term “emergence.” Agency in artificial life emerges through what Barad calls entanglement, in this case between observers and their apparatus, a perpetual engagement between observations of a system and their interpretations. The article explores the differences that this diffractive perspective makes to artificial life and accounts of its materialization.

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Rosiek, Jerry Lee, and Jimmy Snyder. "Narrative Inquiry and New Materialism: Stories as (Not Necessarily Benign) Agents." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 10 (August 10, 2018): 1151–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800418784326.

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Agential realism—the idea that it makes sense to view the world as being composed of various forms of protean nonhuman agency—has been a topic of discussion for many social science scholars in recent years. This increase of interest in agent ontologies can be attributed to the new feminist materialist movement in the philosophy of science literature. However, agent ontologies also are found in Indigenous studies literature and in Peircean pragmatism. These latter sources are also a part of the current methodological conversation about nonhuman agency. This article explores the connections between agential realist philosophy and social science research that employs narrative forms of analysis and representation. The goal is to assist narrative researchers in avoiding oversimplification by tracing out different strands in these literatures and mapping out points of connection and disconnection in detail. Intersections that hold the promise of complementary development are highlighted.

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Rouse, Joseph. "Barad's Feminist Naturalism." Hypatia 19, no. 1 (2004): 142–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01272.x.

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Philosophical naturalism is ambiguous between conjoining philosophy with science or with nature understood scientifically. Reconciliation of this ambiguity is necessary but rarely attempted. Feminist science studies often endorse the former naturalism but criticize the second. Karen Barad's agential realism, however, constructively reconciles both senses. Barad then challenges traditional metaphysical naturalisms as not adequately accountable to science. She also contributes distinctively to feminist reinterpretations of objectivity as agential responsibility, and of agency as embodied, worldly, and intra-active.

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Shabbar, Andie Elizabeth. "Queer Bathroom Graffiti Matters: Agential Realism and Affective Temporalities." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 30 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/030.e06.

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Govier, Eloise. "Do you follow? Rethinking causality in archaeology." Archaeological Dialogues 26, no. 01 (June 2019): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203819000047.

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AbstractPhilosopher and physicist Karen Barad (2003; 2007; 2012) has brought a new understanding of causality to the academic discourse (agential realism theory). Inspired by this new take on causality, I problematize the argument that archaeologists ‘follow’ materials. I begin by challenging the act of ‘following’ on two counts (causality and universalism), and then consider the work of Malafouris (2008a) – a thinker whose ideas have the potential to remediate this issue through his examination of the ‘in-between’ humans and matter. I argue that, despite offering an inspirational approach to mind–matter relationships, the dialectical relationship he evokes remains problematic from a Baradian perspective as it is still rooted in ‘following’. I suggest that Barad’s agential realism offers a valuable conceptual framework for researchers who are weary of ‘unilateral’ linear causality and keen to move beyond dialectical thinking (Barad 2007, 214).

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Murris, Karin, and Joanne Peers. "GoPro(blem)s and possibilities: Keeping the child human of colour in play in an interview." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 23, no. 3 (September 2022): 332–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14639491221117219.

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In response to the call for papers for this special issue and the questions it poses, the authors show how the ontological posthumanist shift of agential realism does not erase but keeps the child human of colour in play, despite the inclusion of the other-than-(Adult)human in its methodologies. Through a montaging technique, the authors explore the philosophical complexity of ‘decentering without erasure’ by re-turning to data from a large international research project – Children, Technology and Play (2019–2020). Through an agential realist reading of interview data ‘of’ ‘seven-year-old’ Henry when visiting him at home in an informal settlement in Cape Town, they show what else is going on, and the politically radical and subtle philosophical difference this makes for reconfiguring child subjectivity. To do more justice to the complexity of reality, the analysis bounces around like Henry's sack ball and zooms in on the role apparatuses such as GoPros play in research. The authors ‘follow the child’ literally but differently, without excluding or erasing the more-than-(Adult)human. In meeting Henry, they also meet Eshal, who introduces the GoPro(blem). By diffractively reading Karen Barad's scholarship through visual and aural texts, the authors respond to the question of how posthumanist research makes a difference to childhood studies. They show how the agential realist move(ment) from Object and Subject to Phenomenon explodes ageist, ableist, racist, extractive and settler-colonial logics in education research.

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Kronberger, Alisa, and Lisa Krall. "Agential realism meets feminist art. A diffractive dialogue between writers, theories and art." Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 2, no. 2 (July 26, 2021): 25–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v2i2.35889.

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This article invites readers to follow our diffractive dialogue, which reflects on our interdisciplinary collaboration in thinking and writing with Karen Barad. Working with Barad’s diffractive methodology, we bring her agential realism, insights from quantum physics and feminist theories to contemporary feminist art. The aesthetic practices of three art works are discussed, and we argue that these call for an understanding of eco-, capitalist-, colonialist- and feminist critique as interrelated phenomena in the sense of agential realism. This is because it is not only the art works themselves that create encounter-moments of being-entangled with the bodies and discourses that surround them. From a methodological perspective, we are also interested in marking diffractive moments of encounter with the art works and between us, given our different disciplinary backgrounds. So, we intend to open up a space of encounters between Barad’s work, the work of the three artists and the work of ourselves as writers.

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Jang, Jieun. "Analysis of the meaning of Transformative Competencies and Agency in 'Education 2030' in the Era of Transformation: Focused on Karen Barad’s Agential Realism." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 45, no. 6 (June 30, 2023): 771–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.06.45.06.771.

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In 2018, the OECD created the ‘Education2030’ project, which emphasized developing Transformative Competencies and Agency to prepare students for challenges in the era of transformation. The purpose of this paper analyzed the contents and meaning from agential realism perspective, as suggested by Karen Barad, feminist new materialism, arguing that ‘Education 2030’ need to be studied from various perspectives. Therefore, the meaning of the core goals, competencies, and achievements of ‘Education 2030’ was analyzed by applying the Hermeneutic Phenomenological research method. As the results of this study, Transformational Competencies required the ability to create new values, control conflicts, and take the responsibility to respond to global crises. In addition, student agency and co-agency referred to growing and developing jointly by forming entangled relationships. Forward, we must make efforts to establish a educational ecosystem conducive to building Transformative Competencies and Agency. Agential realism is expected to be a useful perspective for breaking away from the dichotomous conceptual frame that distinguishes knowledge and competence in the curricula.

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Degórski, Przemysław, and Anna Kamińska. "Ruch, dźwięk, motion capture: projekt „Musica Posthumana" w kontekście realizmu sprawczego Karen Barad." Czas Kultury XXXIX, no. 1 (March 30, 2023): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.61269/knoy7848.

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This article problematizes the interdisciplinary project Musica Posthumana in the context of Ka-ren Barad’s philosophy of agential realism. Using selected terminology proposed by the philoso-pher, the creators of the project describe the process of permeating the agency of the phenomena that comprise it and include reflection on the agency of non-human elements in the creative pro-cess. The motion capture technology used in the project will be analyzed through the prism of a research tool as understood by Karen Barad. Its status will be expanded from creating representa-tions to actively making sense and participating in the process of materializing relationships and meanings. The interlacing agency of the project’s sound, motion, and technological phenomena will be presented and described through intra-actions. The onto-epistemological status of the body in the technological environment will also be discussed. Key-words: agential realism, motion capture, Musica Posthumana, intra-actions, sound, dance, technology

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Brown, Donald V. "Self‐structure Singularity: Considerations for Agential Realism in Critical Psychology." Social and Personality Psychology Compass 14, no. 12 (September 29, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12569.

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Ammann, Theresa. "Nonhuman and Human 'Victims' and 'Perpetrators': Intra-active InSecurity Becomings of the Ebola Outbreak." Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, no. 1 (June 15, 2018): 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v27i1.109679.

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Although feminist theory and security studies have long criticized post-war gendered meta-narratives that categorize people as either victims or perpetrators based on their (imagined) insecurities, these criticisms have mainly focused on the agency of humans, but have dismissed nonhuman entities as irrelevant. This article explores this binary by assessing the victim- and perpetrator-hood dynamics of nonhuman and human matter during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Drawing on Karen Barad’s agential realism, I assess these dynamics by means of three vignettes of inSecurity becoming in peri-urban Liberia. The vignettes are based on ethnographic fieldwork, individual and focus-group interviews, and solicited diaries. This agential realist exploration provides the following new insights into understandings of victim- and perpetrator-hood: (1) nonhuman entities can emerge as victims and perpetrators; (2) victim- and perpetrator-hood are not exclusive states of existence but relational processes of intra-actively emerging becomings; and (3) both insecurity and security emerge concurrently through the entangled becoming of victim and perpetrator. These insights require further research to reconsider concepts such as intentionality, responsibility and ethics in discussions of war, post-conflict justice and humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts.

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Braunmühl, Caroline. "Beyond hierarchical oppositions: A feminist critique of Karen Barad’s agential realism." Feminist Theory 19, no. 2 (November 27, 2017): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117741243.

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Vosselman, Ed, and Ivo De Loo. "Sociomateriality and the metaphysics of accounting information systems: Revisiting agential realism." International Journal of Accounting Information Systems 49 (June 2023): 100609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2023.100609.

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Hollin, Gregory, Isla Forsyth, Eva Giraud, and Tracey Potts. "(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics." Social Studies of Science 47, no. 6 (September 15, 2017): 918–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344.

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In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or invested in this body of work. We examine Barad’s use of quantum physics, which underpins her conception of the material world. We discuss the political strengths of this position but also note tensions associated with applying quantum physics to phenomena at macro-scales. We identify both frictions and unacknowledged affinities with science and technology studies in Barad’s critique of reflexivity and her concept of diffraction. We flesh out Barad’s overarching position of ‘agential realism’, which contains a revised understanding of scientific apparatuses. Building upon these discussions, we argue that inherent in agential realism is both an ethics of inclusion and an ethics of exclusion. Existing research has, however, frequently emphasized entanglement and inclusion to the detriment of foreclosure and exclusion. Nonetheless, we contend that it is in the potential for an ethics of exclusion that Barad’s work could be of greatest utility within science and technology studies and beyond.

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Kelley, Amber, and Jerry Gale. "Entangled embodiment(s) with trauma: a play in six acts." Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice 5, no. 1 (September 24, 2022): 84–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.28963/5.1.8.

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Exposition This play is about entangled embodiments of early career family therapists attending to clients’ trauma. It is drawn from research based on the theoretical framework of Karen Barad’s agential realism. As part of (2007) agential realism, the world is always already entangled and connected (Barad, 2007). I/we are not separate from one another, as in a murmuration, a shifting mass of starlings, thousands of birds flying together in dynamic shapes, shifting and moving in concert, responsive to one another and their larger environment (RSPB, 2022). In performing a murmuration, the birds cease to be distinct but instead are connected, communicating, and entangled as part of the larger form that is ever changing and becoming, allowing us to consider how thinking of systemic practice as a murmuration entails following lines of entanglement, connectedness, and iterative responsivity. To trace and track a murmuration, to learn from it and be a part of the embodied entanglement, is not to sit still, but to follow embodied shifts, to draw temporary and moving boundaries around the amorphous shapes and patterns that are forming/dissolving/re-forming in turn. Barad, a feminist quantum physicist (2007), refers to these boundary-drawing practices as agential cuts, or enactments that show what is inside/outside a phenomenon, not as inherently distinct, but as temporarily separated so the murmuration can be looked at, examined, and explored. This play is a series of agential cuts, six acts that together provide a broader narrative. This narrative weaves through/in/between the murmuration of systemic practice, exploring with curiosity what happens to the embodiments of systemic therapy practitioners when a client discloses a traumatic event or history. Based on Amber Kelley’s dissertation research, and presenting findings as poetry, this play follows an arc of exploration, an embodied journey through the entangled becomings of therapy practice and of being intimately with/in the trauma of our interconnected world.

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Rhee, Jee-sun. "“Mattering” Matter and Meaning: A Preliminary Study on Karen Barad's Agential Realism." EPOCH AND PHILOSOPHY 32, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 233–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.32432/kophil.32.1.8.

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Park, Shinhyun. "Woolf’s Posthuman Aesthetics Based on Barad’s Agential Realism: The Waves and Orlando." James Joyce Journal 26, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 55–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.46258/jjj.2020.26-1.55.

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Lovell, Sue, and Reza Arab. "Evaluating the Credibility of Storied Matter in the Context of Agential Realism." Angelaki 27, no. 6 (November 2, 2022): 50–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2022.2139018.

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Brown, Shae L., Lisa Siegel, and Simone M. Blom. "Entanglements of matter and meaning: The importance of the philosophy of Karen Barad for environmental education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 36, no. 3 (January 22, 2020): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2019.29.

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AbstractThe rich and innovative ideas of quantum physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad have much to offer environmental educators in terms of practical theories for teaching and learning. This article shares insights gained from a facilitated conversation at the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) Conference Research Symposium, and offers an introduction to Barad’s theories for environmental educators. At this time of challenging planetary imperatives, environmental education is increasingly called upon to contribute to students’ understanding of connectedness, and Barad’s theory of agential realism provides a way to think about, articulate and engage with connectedness as inherent within the world rather than something we need to create. By considering entanglement as a fundamental state, we understand that separateness is not the original state of being. This shift in perspective supports a subtle yet powerful approach to knowledge, communication and collaboration, understanding difference as integral within the world’s entangled becoming. The convened conversation sought to explore Barad’s thinking by defining and discussing the concepts of agential realism, intra-action, material-discursivity, phenomena and diffraction. Barad’s ideas were used to collectively explore what it means to be intraconnected and entangled in today’s world, and specifically how these concepts and experiences relate to our work and lives as environmental educators and researchers.

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Wagensveld, Koos, and Jasper Jolink. "Performative research: A Baradian framework." Maandblad Voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie 92, no. 1/2 (March 12, 2018): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/mab.92.23787.

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This paper stresses the importance of materiality in accounting and organization studies. Accounting and organization studies have overlooked the ways in which accounting and organizing is bound up with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact. To incorporate the materiality concept in accounting and organization research, an agential realism research approach is proposed in this paper (Barad 2007). The paper concludes that agential realism can at least make three contributions to the literature. First, Baradian studies can contribute by illustrating the importance of material relations in the constitution of accounting and management practices. By interrogating the rich variety of materialities involved in the practices of measurement or making of innovation, Baradian studies expand the methodological choices available to practice-theoretic accounts of accounting or innovation work. It is the entanglement of many types of matter that perform and affect (sometimes in a disruptive way) the making of accounting measures or innovation. Second, Baradian studies can contribute by reframing the causal relations from which accounting measurements and innovations are made. Baradian studies can illustrate the intra-dependencies that exist between the things represented and constituted, and the representations made. Finally, Baradian studies can contribute by illustrating the ways in which properties of abstract concepts and ideals (e.g. liabilities, innovation) are the consequence, not of human-based practice, but of socio-material re-configurings.

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Philip, Andrew I. Iain. "True Colors: Chromaticity, Realism and Technological Honesty." Comparative Cinema 9, no. 17 (December 19, 2021): 79–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31009/cc.2021.v9.i17.05.

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I propose an application of agential realism to my practice as research, a film about my mother getting one tattoo covered with a new one, to investigate the material-discursive role played by the camera in determining meaning within the film image. I use my practice as a comparative case study, considering how a specific camera apparatus determines and negotiates standards of colour accuracy, and what it means to remove those colour values in post-production. I argue that the different colour processing of the same footage produces perceptible onto-epistemological difference, even while it remains indexically equivalent. Second, I will show exactly how this particular digital photosensitive technology meets the pro-filmic event to record colour, enacting agencies that reduce matter to fit a specifically programmed colour system, prior to any manipulation in post-production. The system itself draws the boundaries of accuracy it claims to achieve, with inevitable ethical implications.

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Westaway, Lise, Gabriele Kaiser, and Mellony Graven. "What Does Social Realism Have to Offer for Research on Teacher Identity in Mathematics Education?" International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 18, no. 7 (October 30, 2019): 1229–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10763-019-10021-4.

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Abstract Research that focuses on teacher identity is gaining traction as researchers argue that teachers mediate more than mathematical knowledge and skills in the classroom. This research tends to be underpinned by a social constructionist orientation, which foregrounds epistemology over ontology. This orientation is limiting for research that wishes to understand the base conditions that enable or constrain the expression (i.e. both communication and action) of teacher identity in teaching primary mathematics. The paper suggests that this requires research that explores the interaction between structure, culture and agency in the expression of teacher identity in teaching mathematics in primary school. The study argues that a social realist orientation is of value to research on teacher identity. From this perspective, teacher identity is defined as the manner in which teachers express their roles as teachers. As the paper is primarily theoretical, the exemplification is limited to two primary school teachers’ expression of only one role namely effective communicator of mathematics. It demonstrates what social realism enables, that is, not illuminated in research underpinned by a social constructionist orientation. The argument made in this paper elucidates how social realism supports a deep analysis of the structural and agential conditions that enable and constrain teacher identities.

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Højgaard, Lis, and Dorte Marie Søndergaard. "Theorizing the complexities of discursive and material subjectivity: Agential realism and poststructural analyses." Theory & Psychology 21, no. 3 (April 20, 2011): 338–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354309359965.

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O’Neil, Joy Kcenia. "Transformative Sustainability Learning Within a Material-Discursive Ontology." Journal of Transformative Education 16, no. 4 (August 28, 2018): 365–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541344618792823.

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In this article, sustainability education is defined within the three orders of change—education about, for, and as sustainability. The third-order change, education as sustainability is defined as transformative sustainability education—an ontological change in how humans and the material world relate. The dominant higher educational paradigm tends to educate about subject matter (i.e., sustainability) distanced from material and focuses on individual human cognition. This does not go far enough to enact sustainable change. Rather, a human and nonhuman materialization within teaching and learning is explained through agential realism, as conceptualized by Barad. The author narrates her way through her own transformative learning journey as an environmental science and sustainability educator going from a reductionist paradigm instructor into a relationality paradigm educator living into sustainability. From dualist teaching in environmental and human health where the study of food was an object, she undertook teaching and research on the pedagogy of food as a material subject. The findings explore the practice of agential realism in relation to the field of transformative sustainability education, namely, that teaching and learning intra-actively engages body, mind, and all material, including food, water, soil, trees, people, and communities. This is a profoundly transformative pedagogic shift in higher education. Whether we teach sustainability-related subject matter or not, a relational ontology of teaching and learning has the potential to create the conditions for a transformative learning process through an iterative reconfiguring of our relationality—moving towards a social and ecologically sustainable society.

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Dunk, Richard A. "Diffracting the “Quantum” and the “Social”: Meeting the Universe Halfway in Social Science." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 20, no. 3 (October 4, 2019): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708619880212.

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The “quantum” label has become a desirable brand in social studies, with notable prominence being given to Karen Barad’s agential realism, as presented in her book Meeting the Universe Halfway. This article provides an overview of the key ideas in the book, exemplifying the ways these ideas may help us “do inquiry” in the social sciences. By drawing from Barad’s writing and making comparisons with other social thinking with quantum elements, we can demonstrate the potential for productive and insightful avenues of investigation across interdisciplinary areas, particularly through a consideration of diffractive approaches to inquiry.

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Phillips, Louise Gwenneth. "Walking in indeterminate spaces: possibilities for political co-existence." Qualitative Research Journal 16, no. 4 (November 14, 2016): 331–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-09-2015-0084.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how being led by a young child to unknown destinations without shared language offers an experience of indeterminacy that opens up (re)thinking of political co-existence. Design/methodology/approach The relational arts project The Walking Neighbourhood hosted by children challenges the social practice of adults chaperoning children through public streets by inviting children to curate and lead unknown adults on walks of local neighbourhoods. This paper focusses on sensory ethnographic research of one encounter of a child-curated walk when this project took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The experience is relayed through multilayered sensorial storytelling inter-woven with diffractive analysis informed from a post-humanist agential realist position (Barad, 2007, 2012). Findings Perceptions, knowings, imaginings, memories and connections are read as explanations of intra-actions in the child-led walk to produce new meaning in the phenomena of political co-existence. Emergent, embodied, sensorial listening produces new awareness and understandings of intra-acting beings in an urban space regardless of age or form. Social implications Application of ethical ontological epistemological practice through emergent, embodied, sensorial listening to others opens affectual ethical ways of being and knowing for justice-to-come in political co-existence. Originality/value The concept of child-led walks is innovative as a political act by shifting from vertical adult-child relations to horizontal relations. Post-humanist agential realism is a new and emerging theory that offers possibilities to reconceptualise co-existence with others in public spaces.

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Zavota, Gina. "A feminist approach to "The Visible and the Invisible" through Karen Barad's agential realism." Acta Structuralica s2 (2018): 147–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.19079/actas.2018.s2.147.

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Kimura, Risa, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Modeling a Digitally Enhanced Real World Inspired by Agential Realism—Exploring Opportunities and Challenges." Smart Cities 6, no. 1 (January 13, 2023): 319–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities6010016.

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In this paper, we propose a conceptual-model called the virtualizing/reframing (V/R) twin model to construct a digitally enhanced real world. The V/R twin model simulates the real world, and is an extension of the conventional digital-twin model, which can accurately model the real world and provides a general-purpose method for building digital services that enhance the real world. The major difference between the proposed model and the conventional digital-twin model is its consideration of diverse new information-presentation devices that have been recently developed. The V/R twin model is inspired by agential realism to include the “entanglement of the social and the material”, and the proposed observable-world consists of the social and material that are separate, according to the current context. After explaining the outline of the V/R twin model, where four virtualizing-patterns and reframing-patterns are introduced, the potential opportunities for the V/R twin model are examined, from multiple perspectives.

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Weber, Ron. "Taking the ontological and materialist turns: Agential realism, representation theory, and accounting information systems." International Journal of Accounting Information Systems 39 (December 2020): 100485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.accinf.2020.100485.

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Aulich, Jim, and Mary Ikoniadou. "Ghost Stories for Grown-Ups: Pictorial Matters in Times of War and Conflict." Humanities 9, no. 2 (May 22, 2020): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9020044.

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This introduction takes as its central armature Karen Barad’s agential realism to provide a framework for understanding the essays brought together in this Special Issue under the rubric of pictures of conflict. The intention is to move the discussion with regard to picture making forward to more fully embrace the pictorial and the physical, the historical and institutional processes within apparatuses of picture-making. The attempt in ‘Ghost stories’ through the concept of a visual apparatus, is to shed new light and thinking on pictures as material objects; how they act and feed into our subjectivities, experiences and realities and to account for their currency, duration, affectivity and authority beyond transparent representation or symbolic meaning. In order to achieve this, Barad’s agential realism is inflected by insights from Malafouris’s (2013) material engagement theory; W.J.T. Mitchell’s (2005) image theory; Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk’s (2017) image operations; Mondzian’s (2005) understanding of the economy of the image, as well as the ontological concerns of new German art history and image science exemplified in the work of Hans Belting (1996, 2011) and Horst Bredekamp (2017), for example. In this framework, the worlds pictures create, and the subjectivities they produce, are not understood to precede the phenomena they depict. The picture, as the outcome of the apparatus which produces it, makes an ‘observational cut’ that simultaneously excludes and includes certain elements from its frame. As such, it has to be comprehended as party to processes which are both ethical and political. A fact which is particularly important during times of conflict and war.

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Roy, Deboleena. "Asking Different Questions: Feminist Practices for the Natural Sciences." Hypatia 23, no. 4 (December 2008): 134–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01437.x.

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In this paper, Roy attempts to develop a semiprescriptive analysis for the natural sciences by examining more closely a skill that many feminist scientists have been reported to possess. Feminist scientists have often been lauded for their ability to “ask different questions.” Drawing from standpoint theory, strong objectivity, situated knowledges, agential realism, and the methodology of the oppressed, the author suggests that this skill can be articulated further into the feminist practice of research agenda choice. Roy illustrates the usefulness of developing such a practice by addressing her own dilemma of conducting in vitro research in a reproductive biology lab.

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Akgünay, Sinan. "Unfolding macroprudential mechanisms: central bank-led mechanisms during the post-Global Financial Crisis Turkish experience." New Perspectives on Turkey 67 (November 2022): 83–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/npt.2022.23.

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AbstractThe Global Financial Crisis of 2008 was followed by an increased volatility in capital flows, posing considerable macro-financial risks, especially for emerging markets. Turkey addressed these macro-financial risks between 2010 and 2011. Principal decision makers at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey took policy actions by introducing policy mixes that trigger causal mechanisms informing the behaviour of bankers and their customers at the macro level to contain such risks. Utilising insights from causal mechanisms theory, critical realism, and realist evaluation, this article explores how the Central Bank implemented the policy mix. Our central argument is that at the macro level (i.e., structural and institutional contexts), causal mechanisms link actions with micro-level contexts (i.e., perceptions and reasoning of the target audience), whilst at the micro level, multiple causal mechanisms link policy outcomes with actor behaviour through non-linear feedback mechanisms. Our article contributes to the causal mechanisms literature by linking policy mixes and policy outcomes via causal mechanisms that informed agential actions and outcomes containing macro-financial risks.

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Degórski, Przemysław. "Meaning mattering in Björk's Biophilia: An analysis from the viewpoint of Karen Barad's agential realism." New Sound, no. 59-1 (2022): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/newso22059071d.

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The aim of this paper is to analyse Björk's transdisciplinary project Bio-philia in the context of Karen Barad's agential realism. I will compare how matter creates meaning in both the artist's and the researcher's approach from the relationship between phenomena occurring in the physical and 'natural' world. The first part of the article presents the principles of Barad's point of view to a new materialism paradigm and focuses on how matter takes an active role in creating meanings and how it is performatively correlated with an apparatus. This problem also highlights how new materialism approaches an intra-connected relationship between human and non-human beings. By showcasing this perspective I will try to find similarities in Björk's perspective of creating sound in Biophilia. I will analyse the project in terms of relationships between natural phenomena and music theory elements (that Björk connected within the songs), ways of using technology by the Icelandic artist and Biophilia's application as a tool with similar characteristics to Barad's apparatus.

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Schadler, Cornelia. "Enactments of a new materialist ethnography: methodological framework and research processes." Qualitative Research 19, no. 2 (December 21, 2017): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794117748877.

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Materialist process ontologies, often subsumed under the term new materialism, such as the Deleuzian materialism of Rosi Braidotti, the agential realism of Karen Barad or the posthumanism of Donna Haraway, are becoming increasingly recognized in qualitative research. In this article I argue and illustrate that these theories allow for a reconfiguration of analytical research tools without using the representationalist epistemological framework these tools are often embedded in. Karen Barad’s concept of ‘exteriority within’ is of particular help for this task. I illustrate the research practices of two research projects, which included multiple methods of data collections (interviews, observations, re-enactments), a process of analysis I call referencing and a writing technique I call rebuilding worlds.

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Govier, Eloise. "Power and all its guises. Environmental determinism and locating ‘the crux of the matter’." Archaeological Dialogues 27, no. 2 (November 13, 2020): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203820000215.

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AbstractCan we theorize the relationship between discourses that antagonize each other? In a recent article, Arponen et al. demonstrate the tension between two different research models, and spotlight the compelling impact these methods have on archaeological interpretation. In response to their observations, this paper theorizes how we can understand the position of the researcher in relation to the events they analyse. Using Michel Foucault’s approach to the ‘discursive formation’ and Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism, in this reaction I argue that focusing on a single and most important point (the crux) is problematic, and theoretically outline how creating conceptual space for polymorphous causality can aid the analysis of a ‘dispersion of events’.

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Clark, Marianne I., and Holly Thorpe. "Towards Diffractive Ways of Knowing Women’s Moving Bodies: A Baradian Experiment With the Fitbit–Motherhood Entanglement." Sociology of Sport Journal 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 12–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2018-0173.

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This article presents a diffractive experiment in thinking about mothers’ engagements with self-tracking technologies as materially and discursively produced phenomena. Inspired by St. Pierre’s claim that any empirical adventure with new materialisms must begin by living with theory, we share our feminist, collaborative journey with Fitbits and Karen Barad’s agential realism to consider what might emerge when we begin thinking and living with concepts such as diffraction, entanglement, and intra-action. Unfolding within the uncertain intersections of theory, method, and data, our diffractive methodology prompted understandings of maternal, moving bodies as entangled agencies in continuous states of becoming and fostered generative feminist relationships that allowed us to embrace new ways of thinking, knowing, and being.

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Fairchild, Nikki. "Queering the Data: The Somatechnics of English Early Childhood Education and Care Teachers." Somatechnics 10, no. 1 (April 2020): 52–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2020.0300.

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Education has increasingly been consumed by neoliberal expectations that result in the need for data to be collected to justify regulative, pedagogical, curricular, and teaching practices. The marketisation of higher education requires more quantitative measurement of student attainment and progress which impacts on pedagogy and provision. Working with Karen Barad's theorisations of spacetimemattering, agential cuts, intra-action, and diffractive analysis, I draw on research with Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) teachers who were working and concurrently studying on a degree programme. Empirical data was generated from a focus group discussing the influences of data recording software on the teachers and their professional practice, the devices used as part of the recording process, and the curricular expectations during children's assessment. Scholars have argued that the need to ensure children meet developmentally appropriate milestones in ECEC can lead to performative, technicist teacher practices driven by data and that these practices may result in datafication and ‘dividual’ subjectivities ( Deleuze 1992 ). Entangling with material-discursive productions between ECEC teachers and ‘data’ provides a new contribution to understanding the influence of other-than-human bodies on the process of dividualisation and its impact on professional practice. Although focussing on ECEC teachers and their assessment practices, the outcomes of the analysis are connected to higher education, which is facing similar pressures for student progress. In line with the theme of this issue of Somatechnics, I discuss how putting to work Barad's agential realism can articulate and rethink both human and other-than-human matterings by revealing how some ‘agential cuts’ reinforce deficit dividual discourse. In turn, this can help us move beyond datafication and dividual practice.

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Hinton, Peta. "The Quantum Dance and the World's ‘Extraordinary Liveliness’: Refiguring Corporeal Ethics in Karen Barad's Agential Realism." Somatechnics 3, no. 1 (March 2013): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2013.0084.

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In her 2007 monograph Meeting the Universe Halfway, Karen Barad introduces her reader to a world of movement and flux, where bodies ceaselessly participate in their own material configuration, where bodily integrity and identity is entangled in the dynamic materialisation of its social and political significance, and where processes of understanding and meaning making are bound up in ‘an ongoing performance of the world in its differential dance of intelligibility and unintelligibility’ (2007: 149). Through her reading of Niels Bohr's ‘philosophy-physics’, Barad introduces us to a quantum universe that poses some counterintuitive challenges to the modernist worldview which understands matter to be determinate and measurable, or that may quietly preserve something of matter's evidence against culture's symbolic dexterity. In advancing her agential realist account, Baradmoves beyond anthropocentric constraints to conceive of the world in its ‘extraordinary liveliness’ (2007: 91), an enlarged and productive scene of agency engaged in an ongoing performance of its own intelligibility, articulating itself differently. With the suggestion that agency is extended beyond the framework that assigns it to the intentions and accountability of the human subject, Barad offers a powerful rethinking of the politics and ethics of identity in her claim that the ethical call is ‘embodied in the very worlding of the world’ (2007: 160). In this paper I undertake a close reading of Barad's argument to consider its implications for how we might conceive a corporeal ethics that accounts for the production of inequalities and exclusions within the very becoming of the world, and becoming embodied. In the process, I argue that through asomatechnical unfolding of matter, the experimental apparatus, and concept, Barad prompts some challenging considerations for feminist approaches to what ‘the ethical’ constitutes or should achieve.

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Brooks, Ann K. "Agential Realism in a Community-Based Organization in Mexico: An Ethico-Onto-Epistemology of Emancipatory Learning." Adult Education Quarterly 69, no. 1 (December 6, 2018): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713618815579.

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This article shares the findings of a qualitative study of a community-based organization in Mexico and the emancipatory pedagogy practiced there in a time characterized by a changing global economic order, conflict and war, corruption and geographic displacement. To make sense of the transnational philosophical fusion and the pedagogical practices in the organization, I draw on Karen Barad’s ideas to propose an ethico-onto-epistemology of emancipatory learning to uncover power in spaces of self/knowledge that are outside the binaries of critical-theoretical practice. It suggests an understanding of emancipatory learning that is relational, embodied, ethical, and emergent.

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Salmela, Anu. "Fleshy Stories. New Materialism and Female Suicides in Late Nineteenth-Century Finland." International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 6, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/hcm.545.

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In nineteenth-century western medicine suicide was a gendered phenomenon. Female suicides were linked to emotion, whereas the male ones were seen as social acts, reflecting the state of the national economy and social wellbeing. Concentrating on late nineteenth-century Finnish female suicides, this article offers a new perspective on the medical history of suicides: firstly, it utilizes an underused source type, the post-mortems of suicides, and, secondly, it develops a methodology inspired by Karen Barad’s agential realism. While recognizing the gendered and cultural dimensions of suicide, I argue that female suicides included factors even beyond the human. Hence, the article suggests that suicide was neither a human nor a discursive phenomenon but an entanglement of multiple agencies, including human and nonhuman, matter and discourse.

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