`Agencies of observation' are not liberal opinion-bearers, but situated entities made up of humans and non-humans in specific relationship. Eschewing all romantic appropriations of quantum physics that evade strong knowledge claims, Barad argues that Bohr's interpretation of the experimental-theoretical nexus of quantum mechanics is crucial to understanding how observations and agencies of observation cannot be independent. Barad elaborates Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics in the light of feminist science studies to propose an account of material-discursive practices in scientific knowledge. This is an important, ambitious, readable, risk-taking, and very smart book, one to savor and grow with. Schweber * ISIS * "Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway makes fundamental contributions to science studies, philosophy, feminist theory, and physics-it is a rare book that can do that. My intent here is to argue that it merits the serious attention of historians, philosophers, sociologists of science, and science studies and STS scholars." - S. It deserves wide analysis and discussion. The book is a provocative, generative, contribution to our attempts to provide effective tools to describe and understand the rapidly changing world we are part of. "Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious, thought-provoking, challenging book.
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