Description Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than representative […]
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Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Description Quickly becoming a classic, Bennett’s book asks (among other things) how the term “materialism” came to be synonymous with Marx’s notion of materiality, “as economic structures and exchanges that provoke many other events.” She […]
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Description Less a single coherent argument than a series of meditations, this book introduces many of the concepts that would become foundational to Marxist thought and critical theory, more generally, including alienation, exploitation, and dialectical […]
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Meaning
Description Barad builds on the insights of Niels Bohr’s quantum physics to develop a new queer and feminist ontology and epistemology that radically reframes questions of being, individualism, relationality, representation, agency, and identity. Her notion […]
Nature’s Queer Performativity
Description Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than represnetative […]