Karen Barad Beyond New Materialism

Stacey Moran is Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts and the Department of English at Arizona State University. She has published work on feminist materialism, philosophical style, disciplinary relation, and scientific discourse.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Problem of Reading Karen BaradPart OneChapter 1: Hearing Silence: Rhetoric, Transdisciplinarity, and Physics in Barad’s ReceptionSilence as a Material RhetoricThe Silence of RhetoricThe Silence of TransdisciplinarityThe Silence of PhysicsThe Rhetorical Work of SilenceChapter 2: Beyond Affirmation: The Rhetorical Life of DiffractionAffirmation as Mood and MethodDiffraction Beyond AffirmationA Rhetoric of Resonance in Diffractive ReadingsThe Additive Logic of Diffractive BlurDiffraction as an Apt MetaphorPart TwoChapter 3: Dramatic Beginnings: Barad, Fiction, and the Staging of Agential RealismFrayn in the Frame: The Silence Around CopenhagenNew Materialism After Theory: Transatlantic Genealogies, Institutional Crisis, and the Return of the TextualReading Frayn and Barad: Authorial Intent, History, and Performance in CopenhagenFiction as Apparatus: Artifactuality, Diffraction, and the Emergence of Agential RealismStaging Transdisciplinarity: Why Barad’s Dramatic Beginning MattersChapter 4: Invented Schemes: Analogy, Thought Experiment, and the Making of Agential RealismBarad Rejects Analogy?Structures of AnalogyTissues of AnalogyRewriting Copenhagen: A Thought ExperimentAffects of AnalogyChapter 5: At the Threshold of Nothingness: Epigraphs, Photography, and Agential RealismEpigraphs as ThresholdsIntegral EpigraphsRogue EpigraphsFeeling the ThresholdLooking Otherwise: The Event of PhotographyChapter 6: In Lieu of a Conclusion: Toward Another TransdisciplinarityTen provocationsBibliography