Essays about: "agential realism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words agential realism.
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1. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE
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2. A Current Need for Continuity
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : Throughout these last few decades, phenomenology and modern physics have slowly started to approach each other in order to bridge the gap between the subjective and objective. In this thesis I aim to show an approach done with the help of Karen Barad's agential realism; a quantum interpretation enabling us to better understand and analyse our complex world, as well as our perception of it. READ MORE
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3. RISK, RESPECT & UNSPEAKABLE ACTS : Untangling Intimate-Sexual Consent through 'Intuitive Inquiry' & 'Agential Realism'
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Centrum för genusforskning (from 2013)Abstract : In an attempt to address the issues in research and theory on consent, this thesis explores what consent can be seen as "doing" through an 'Intuitive Inquiry' (Anderson 2011a) and 'Agential Realism' (Barad 2007). Various manifestations of consent appears through: the experience of the researcher, consent research and theory, consent legislation, interviews with professionals in intimate-sexual consent, and, feminist fanzines. READ MORE
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4. Performance Art and Agential Realism: Producing Material-Discursive Knowledge about Class and the Body.
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : Using new materialist approaches to intersectional theories of gender/sex –particularly Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemological framework, agential realism– this thesis examines how knowledge about class is produced, through feminist performance art practices. Through this lens I will examine how two pieces of performance art by U.K. READ MORE
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5. I am because we are : Ethical consequences of agential realism
University essay from Södertörns högskola/FilosofiAbstract : Within the interdisciplinary field of new materialism Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism deconstructs our current euro-western metaphysical perception of the world and our existence within it, to then re-build an understanding based on relatively new findings within quantum physics. In this thesis I try to recreate Barad’s theory to see what ethical consequences might come from it. READ MORE