Essays about: "Karen Barad"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 20 essays containing the words Karen Barad.

  1. 6. I am because we are : Ethical consequences of agential realism

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Author : Nils Patrik Svensson; [2021]
    Keywords : Karen Barad; Agential Realism; agentisk realism; responsibility; response ability; ethics; metaphysics; Democritus; agency; ai; global village; small world theory; consumption;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 7. EUROPE 2020: TOWARDS A NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY? Neoliberal Dreams and Diffractive Awakenings

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Georgios Eleftherios Vordos; [2020-12-28]
    Keywords : Europe 2020; neoliberalism; biopolitics; diffraction; critical frame analysis; governmentality; European Union; inclusive growth;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the Europe 2020 strategy is of neoliberal nature and aims to adjust every aspect of life to be market-conforming. Furthermore, it examines if the target for an inclusive growth was achieved and who ended up benefitted from it. READ MORE

  4. 8. Re-imagining Trans*: A Baradian close reading of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Chris Liane Swanson; [2020]
    Keywords : Trans* becoming; Karen Barad; Agential Realism; Material-discursive and Affective Intra-action; Spacetimemattering; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this thesis Baradian theory is applied to a close reading of the novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. The aim of the thesis is to examine how the novel can be read as a re-imagining of trans* becoming. READ MORE

  5. 9. Acid Realities. How Science Enacts the Psychedelic Experience

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Simon Toper; [2019-07-01]
    Keywords : LSD; psychedelic; science; neurotheology; agential realism;

    Abstract : The present work has explored how the psychedelic experience is discursively reproduced in contemporary psychological- and neuroscientific research. In focus was scientific articles detailing experimental human studies with LSD, or comparative studies pertaining to subjects previous psychedelic experiences and psychedelic drug use. READ MORE

  6. 10. PLUGGING IN TO QUEER IN GOTHENBURG. An Emotion and Power-Sensitive In-depth Group Study on Being Queer in Gothenburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Johanna Jaring; [2019-03-26]
    Keywords : Queer; Gothenburg; Emotion; Power; Research Process; Diffraction; Intra-activity;

    Abstract : This study aims to extend the existing knowledge of how different queer persons experience being queer in Gothenburg and in extension, attend to emotions and power relations in the process of knowledge production. The study applies Donna Haraway’s situated knowledge, Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology and theory on what emotions do, and Karen Barad’s theory of intra- action and diffraction. READ MORE