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+ <title> Ici THK — Les Forces Francaises de l'Interieur parlent aux francais </title>
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+ <h1> <a href="index.html">Ici THK</a> </h1>
+ <h2> Karen BARAD </h2>
+ <h3> </h3>
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+ <article>
+ <section id="author">
+ <h4>About the Author</h4>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sources">
+ <h4>Sources</h4>
+ Karen BARAD, <em>Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.</em>,
+ ISBN 13-978-0-8223-3901-4.
+ </section>
+ <section id="quotes">
+ <h4>Quotes</h4>
+ <quote title="Preface to Meeting the Universe Halfway">
+ <p>There are no solutions; there is only the ongoing
+ practice of being open and alive to each meeting, each
+ intra-action, so that we might use our ability to
+ respond, our responsibility, to help awaken, to breathe
+ life into ever new possibilities for living justly. The
+ world and its possibilities for becoming are remade in
+ each meeting. How then shall we understand our role in
+ helping constitute who and what come to matter? How to
+ understand what is entailed in the practice of meeting
+ that might help keep the possibility of justice alive in
+ a world that seems to thrive on death? How to be alive
+ to each being's suffering, including those who have died
+ and those not yet born? How to disrupt patterns of
+ thinking that see the past as finished and the future as
+ not ours or only ours? How to understand the matter of
+ mattering, the nature of matter, space, and time? These
+ questions and concerns are not a luxury made of esoteric
+ musings. Mattering and its possibilities and
+ impossibilities for justice are integral parts of the
+ universe in its becoming; an invitation to live justly
+ is written into the very matter of being. How to
+ respond to that invitation is as much a question about
+ the nature of response and responsibility as it about
+ the nature of matter. The yearning for justice, a
+ yearning larger than any individual or sets of
+ individuals, is the driving force behind this work,
+ which is therefore necessarily about our connections and
+ responsibilities to one another-that is, entanglements.</p>
+ </quote>
+ <quote title="Ib.id. Footnote 45 of Chapter 8, Ontology, Intra-Activity, Ethics">
+ <p>Haraway does not take location to be about fixed
+ position (though unfortunately many readers who cite
+ Haraway conflate her notion of "situated" with the
+ specification of one's social location along a set of
+ axes referencing one's identity). She reiterates this
+ point in different ways throughout her work. For
+ example, in "Situated Knowledges" she writes: "Feminist
+ embodiment, then, is not about fixed location in a
+ reified body, female or otherwise, but about nodes in
+ fields, inflections in orientations, and responsibility
+ for difference in material- semiotic fields of meaning.
+ Embodiment is significant prosthesis; objectivity cannot
+ be about fixed visions when what counts as an object is
+ precisely what world history turns out to be about."
+ Situated knowledge is not merely about knowing or seeing
+ from somewhere (as in having a perspective) but about
+ taking account of how the specific prosthetic embodiment
+ of the technologically enhanced visualizing apparatus
+ matters to practices of knowing. And ifher use of the
+ "@" sign in Modest_Witness can be understood as a mark
+ of the specificity of location, then we can conclude
+ that location is not equivalent to the local, but
+ neither does the globality of the Net imply universality
+ but rather points to its distributed and layered nature
+ (1997, 121): "The '@' and '.' are the title's chief
+ signifiers of the Net. An ordinary e-mail address
+ specifies where the addressee is in a highly
+ capitalized, transnationally sustained, machine
+ language-mediated communications network that gives byte
+ to the euphemisms of the 'global village.' Dependent
+ upon a densely distributed array oflocal and regional
+ nodes, e-mail is one of a powerful set of recent
+ technologies that materially produce what is so blithely
+ called 'global culture.' E-mail is one of the passage
+ points &mdash; both distributed and obligatory &mdash;
+ through which identities ebb and flow in the Net of
+ technoscience" (Haraway 1997, 4; italics mine).
+ Location, for Haraway, may be about the specification
+ ofwhere the addressee is in the Net, but the Net is not
+ fixed, and neither are identities or spacetime. Though
+ Haraway doesn't seem to go as far in making the
+ ontological points I want to emphasize here, in both
+ accounts it seems that while location cannot be about
+ occupying a fixed position, it may be usefully
+ (con)figured as specific connectivity. See chapter 4 on
+ the agential realist conception of objectivity not as a
+ view from somewhere but as a matter of accountability to
+ marks on bodies. Objectivity is not solely an
+ epistemological matter (a matter of seeing, albeit
+ specifically embodied sight) but an ontological
+ (ontoepistemological) one.</p>
+ </quote>
+ </section>
+ </article>
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+ <li><a href="bernard-aspe.html">ASPE</a></li>
+ <li><a href="karen-barad.html">BARAD</a></li>
+ <li><a href="muriel-combes.html">COMBES</a></li>
+ <li><a href="stephane-lupasco.html">LUPASCO</a></li>
+ <li><a href="deborah-lupton.html">LUPTON</a></li>
+ <li><a href="lynn-margulis.html">MARGULIS</a></li>
+ <li><a href="gilbert-simondon.html">SIMONDON</a></li>
+ <li><a href="subrosa.html">SUBROSA</a></li>
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