In Conversation with Karen Barad

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In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism is an accessible introduction to Karen Barad’s agential realist philosophy. The authors take on a unique approach to involve the readers in in/formal conversations between Karen, postgraduate and other researchers at a research event held in 2017 at Cape Town, South Africa. It features chapters that have been contributed by seminar delegates and organisers, which put forth the continuing impact that Karen Barad has had on their empirical work, research writing and drawing practices. The text further discusses the ethical and political significance of Karen’s work, especially in the context of de/colonizing South African higher education. The chapters offer a series of worked posthumanist pedagogical examples and describe how a research seminar was organised differently and more in line with Baradian radical philosophy. At its heart, this book makes a methodological and pedagogical contribution to the surge in literature on agential realism, whilst simultaneously challenging dominant research binaries and arguing for a more egalitarian way of working together in knowledge-creation by troubling human and more-than-human hierarchies. The book’s uniqueness is further fortified through its description of in/formal conversations, which are diffracted through chapters, a doing of agential realism to reconfigure relationships between lecturer and student, expert and novice, supervisor and supervised, researcher and research participants. These radical conversations are dis/continuing. This book will be invaluable for students and individuals interested in advancing their understanding of agential realism and Karen Barad’s influence at large, as well as students and scholars interested in postqualitative methods in all disciplines. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Glimpsing the Colours On the Palette: °.’.” Slowing Down Together/Apart The Main Aims of the Book Are Slowing Down Together-Apart in Cape Town ‘The Event’ Agential Separability A Pedagogy of Performance Glimpsing the Other Colours On the Palette References Chapter Night Sky Temporal Diffraction: A Constellation *** of ‘New’ Electrifying Insights in Conversation With Karen Barad Constellation Viv’s Tracings Karin’s Tracings Constellation and ‘The New’ References Chapter Black Blood Matters Moving Human and Non-Human Bodies From ‘Question & Answer’ to a ‘Pedagogy of Questioning’ A Pedagogy of Questioning Drawn to the Fire “What Remains Is the Impossibility of Being the Teacher I Used to Be” Is Silence a Speaking Questioning? References Chapter Red Re-Membering as a Sacred Practice Re-Membering Travel Hopping Elastic Number Lines Apartheid South Africa Re-Imagining Child The Lines of Childhood Apartheid Schooling Tracing the Threads References Chapter Red Ochre Marking Time, Marking Bodies: Relations Matter Becoming-with Phloem and Flesh A Queering Ontology Hauntings and Un-Finished Stories Mapping Traces and Marks Across Bodies Nakedness and the Colonial Gaze Entanglements of Colonial Violence and Extraction Coming to Terms No Work, No Rest Folds of Time and Matter: 1913/1994/2022 References Chapter Teal Re-Searching Research: Troubling Lines as a Worlding Practice Re-Searching Research Concrete Time A Different Time Leaking Time Acknowledgements References Chapter Ultramarine On Aftermaths, Afterlives and Afterimages ~ Landfall ~ Ultramarine ~ Turn ~ After ~ Compost ~ Return ~ Spectral Wit(h)ness ~ Offing Acknowledgements References Chapter Red Brown Gestures for Engineering and Medical Education Drawing On Our Barad Encounter Introduction Entanglements Troubling Times Zanoxolo Bongani Time/Space Hopping Violences Erasure Movement Re-Turning Acknowledgement References Chapter Orange Diffractive Drawing Introduction On Diffraction Diffractive Drawing Postscript Acknowledgements References Chapter Iridescent Th/reading Through Mull: Cutting a Fashion Theory Course Together-Apart Introduction 1: Th/reading From Within 2: Ghostly Th/Reads 3: Fashioning Th/Reads Through History 4: Th/reading Through My Own Hand 5: Loose Th/Reads Acknowledgements References (No)End Rainbow Æffects Diffracting Colours and Futures Pallets Diffraction and Colours How Colour Works in the Chapters Diffracting the Colours of the Chapters References Index