![]() ![]() 5 from 3 stars) for engaging seriously and passionately with quantum physics, ethics, and philosophy in (close to) equal measure, in particular with her premise of the fascinating Heisenberg/Bohr correspondence and much later in the book with her 100-odd page chapter (chp 7) on various classic quantum physics experiments, tested and theorized, reframing them to prove her ideas about entanglement and agential realism. Barad gets points (enough to bump her up. ![]() But it did not quite live up to my expectations. I really wanted to love this book, as someone with a background and aspiration in physics, philosophy, and moral cosmologies. Most popular and academic reviews (mostly by those in softer sciences rather than physics) seem uncomfortably favorable toward the book, and while I appreciate it greatly, I feel her work, for (due to) all its apparent or self-declared nuances, requires a more nuanced interrogation. ![]() I review the book here in hopes to share new perspectives on Barad’s arguments. I had the great pleasure and challenge of reading Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. ![]()
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