Meeting the universe halfway : quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning / Karen Barad.
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TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007Description: xiii, 524 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0822339013 (acidfree paper); 9780822339014 (acidfree paper); 082233917X (pbk. : acidfree paper); 9780822339175 (pbk. : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Physics -- Philosophy | Quantum theory -- Philosophy | Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- Philosophy | Realism -- Philosophy | Relativity (Physics) -- Philosophy | Matter -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 530.1201 LOC classification: RB37 | .C69 2007Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-489) and index.
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.
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