Different Kinds of Matter(s): Subjectivity, Body, and Ethics in Barad's Materialism

René Rosfort

Different Kinds of Matter(s): Subjectivity, Body, and Ethics in Barad's Materialism

The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre

Abstract

This article questions the methodological conflation at work in Karen Barad's agential realism. Barad's immense appeal is first explained against the tense background of the nature/culture antagonism in the twentieth century. Then, by using some of the penetrating observations of a seventeen-century philosopher, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Barad's “ethico-onto-epistem-ology” is examined and subsequently criticized for disregarding the persistence of subjectivity, dissolving the ambivalence of the bodily matter(s), and neglecting the need for concrete individuality in ethics.

Original language	English
Journal	Kvinder, Køn & Forskning
Volume	2012
Issue number	1-2
Pages (from-to)	55-65
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0907-6182
Publication status	Published - 2012

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