Karen Barad
philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings
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Karen Barad is a philosopher who develops agential realism, a framework that grants matter active agency in worldmaking processes rather than treating it as passive or merely discursive. The course readings invoke her work to challenge humanist assumptions about agency and performativity, particularly in discussions of how non-human entities—swarms, slimes, digital entities—participate in shaping reality through their material intra-actions. Her thinking becomes essential for theorizing how AI systems, biological processes, and aesthetic practices co-constitute worlds together rather than existing in hierarchical relationship.
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