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- Drawing on Barad, sociomateriality proposes the concept of agential realism.
- Those assemblages are the results of agential cuts, which transform the boundary objects into temporally stabilised agencies.
- In this book, Barad also argues that'agential realism,'is useful to the analysis of literature, social inequalities, and many other things.
- For this reason, according to Barad, agential realism is useful for any kind of feminist analysis, even if the connection to science is not apparent.
- The materiality-turn strives to go beyond oppositional debates between various proponents of sociomateriality, such as agential realism vs . critical realism or interpretivism vs . performativity.
- Employing these theses, Bryant pluralizes agential being beyond human finitude, contending that in so doing, the intentionality of the nonhuman world may be investigated without reference to human intent.
- Through doing so, argues Archer, it's possible to give empirical accounts of how structural and agential phenomena interlink " over time " rather than merely stating their theoretical interdependence.
- Though allowing that these characterisations of people with delusions can be correct, she argues that these failures of so-called agential rationality can also be found in people who do not have delusions.
- This claim is based on the fact that Barad's agential realism is a way of understanding the politics, ethics, and agencies of any act of observation, and indeed any kind of knowledge practice.
- Thus, concepts of'structure'and'action', for example, may inform a variety of competing accounts of particular social phenomena, but there is no necessary opposition between structural and agential accounts.
- Mechanical metaphors, according to Abram, lead us to overlook the active or agential quality of living entities, while the organismic metaphorics of the Gaia hypothesis accentuate the active agency of both the biota and the biosphere as a whole.
- In generalizing the agential alterity of being as a foundational ontological principle, Bryant posits three theses : First, wilderness ontology signals the absence of ontological hierarchy, such that all forms of being exist on equal footing with one another.
- Much of Barad's scholarly work has revolved around her concept of " agential realism, " and her theories hold importance for many academic fields, including science studies, STS ( Science, Technology, and Society ), feminist technoscience, philosophy of science, feminist theory, and, of course, physics.
- She has also developed threads of research exploring issues of citizenship in the context of development practice and has argued that outcome-driven agenda of neoliberal developmentalism treats women's agency as an instrument of social change, without giving sufficient attention to existing power relations in which agential capacities are formulated and exercised, and risk negotiated and managed ( with Sumi Madhok ).
- It engages in such an analysis by attempting to understand how wider relations of power are played out in the agential spaces of classroom and community life but also by attempting to investigate how wider structures of mediation at the level of the economy are able to " take root " in the everyday lives of students and teachers who operate at the level of common sense actions.
- Society is made up of various collective groups, such as the family, community, organizations, regions, nations which as Burns and Egdahl state " " can be considered to possess agential capabilities " : to think, judge, decide, act, reform; to conceptualize self and others as well as self's actions and interactions; and to reflect . " ( italics in the original ).