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Karen Barad Reading Circle

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“Even atoms, whose very name, ατομος (atomos), means ‘‘indivisible’’ or ‘‘uncuttable,’’ can be broken apart. But matter and meaning cannot be dissociated, not by chemical processing, or centrifuge, or nuclear blast. Mattering is simultaneously a matter of substance and significance, most evidently perhaps when it is the nature of matter that is in question, when the smallest parts of matter are found to be capable of exploding deeply entrenched ideas and large cities. Perhaps this is why contemporary physics makes the inescapable entanglement of matters of being, knowing, and doing, of ontology, epistemology, and ethics, of fact and value, so tangible, so poignant.” (Meeting the Universe Halfway, p.3)

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Wir sind ein Lese-/Schreibkreis an der Uni Wien der das Buch "Meeting the Universe Halfway - Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning" liest und bespricht. Da das Buch auf Englisch sind werden die Lesekreise auf Englisch abgehalten.


We are a reading/writing circle at the university of vienna. We are discussing the book "Meeting the Universe Halfway - Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning" by Karen Barad.

The meetings happen mostly on Friday evening in case you wanna come by to join us, write a message here ;-)

The book is mostly about these topics: philosophy of physics, quantum physics, entanglement, coherence, diffraction and meaning.

A big topic in the book is "agential realism": How do we define "reality"? We can define it from our own perspective, by asking what we can do with it. That is what "agential" means.

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