On Touching: The Alterity Within, Karen Barad

[@IzzyCubito]

This lecture is in itself a projection from 2018 to today 2020 and our lives as we have begun social distancing, no touching, not understanding our relationship with another human being...

[@newoysters9884]

Thank you

[@bert6644]

Brilliant

[@JakeBuckley-i1c]

Does anyone have a citation on who this person is referring to here? at 47:15?

[@Jules_Dufresne]

I think the abyss is a key concept in Edouard Glissant's work, but as an example : " Yet, the belly of this boat dissolves you, precipi­tates you into a nonworld from which you cry out. This boat is a womb, a womb abyss." Glissant, E. (1997) The Poetics of Relation.

[@natalie.natalie.natalie]

Really good.

[@thulaniearnshaw4094]

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[@johnhannon8034]

An example of what can happen when a physicist refuses to simply “shut up and calculate.” Although she doesn’t use the term, Barad seems to be espousing panpsychism here.

[@vinylmeister2165]

Not physics

[@macguy14]

physics is understanding the movement between bodies

[@gregyoung3243]

Is she just saying touch is an emergent phenomenon? Electrons don’t touch, so we never touch. Seems trivial

[@objektivone3209]

The lady does not have an idea what she is saying.

[@monstersoftheid4693]

May it not be truer to say that you have no idea?

[@kevinilango7896]

​@@monstersoftheid4693 do you know what they are saying? a lot of "meeting the universe halfway" from my reading is just inaccessible vocabulary. barad seems so dependent on foucault but is also trying to distinguish their work from his. the only example of intra-action that they have admitted concretely is that they wrote the book and the book wrote them.

[@Uzmacakekitchen]

She is an outstanding speaker

[@Ronnybengt]

Brilliant