Meeting the universe halfway : quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning /
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| Author / Creator: | Barad, Karen Michelle, author. |
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| Imprint: | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 524 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12707539 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter
- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter
- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering
- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton
- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity
- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
