Different Kinds of Matter(s) – Subjectivity, Body, and Ethics in Barad’s Materialism

Autor: René Rosfort
Jazyk: Danish<br />English<br />Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål<br />Swedish
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, Iss 1-2 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2245-6937
DOI: 10.7146/kkf.v0i1-2.28066
Popis: This article questions the methodological conflation at work in Karen Barad’s agential realism. Barad’s immense appeal is first explained against the tense background of the nature/culture antagonism in the twentieth century. Then, by using some of the penetrating observations of a seventeen-century philosopher, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Barad’s “ethico-onto-epistem-ology” is examined and subsequently criticized for disregarding the persistence of subjectivity, dissolving the ambivalence of the bodily matter(s), and neglecting the need for concrete individuality in ethics.
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