In what follows, I provide a detailed explication of this agential realist ontology. I begin with a detailed examination of the nature of the apparatus, including two significant analytical shifts that are important emendations to Bohr’s fo…As we have seen, apparatuses are not inscription devices, scientific instruments set in place before the action happens, or machines that mediate the dialectic of resistance and accommodation between human and nonhuman laboratory actors. Ap…
Louis Althusser
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Althusser appears here only as a passing reference within discussions of apparatus theory and scientific ontology. The excerpts focus on Karen Barad's agential realist reformulation of apparatuses—moving away from the idea that they are merely instrumental or mediating devices—which implicitly engages with Althusser's concept of ideological apparatuses as constitutive rather than reflective. His notion that institutions actively produce subjects rather than merely representing pre-existing reality becomes relevant to how the course thinks about machines, instruments, and systems as actively participating in the construction of knowledge and agency.
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