position Barad as a phenomenologist but to situate her argument in a larger
discourse, of which I think phenomenology is an important part. I also
referred to Latour, who comes from a different perspective again (neither
post-humanist or phenomenological). My own position is in neither
post-humanist or humanist.
Best
Simon
Simon Biggs
Research Professor
edinburgh college of art
s.biggs@eca.ac.uk
www.eca.ac.uk
Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
CIRCLE research group
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From: "fmarineo@libero.it" <fmarineo@libero.it>
Reply-To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:40 +0100
To: yasmin_discussions <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Simulation, phenomena
Simon,
I don't believe that the way Barad speaks about phenomena and the way
phenomenology intends phenomena are similar. In fact, Barad discusses this
topic in detail in "Meeting the Universe Halfway", where she affirms that
her use of the term phenomenon, which she admits belonging to a specific
philosophical tradition, indicates neither the thing in itself nor the thing
as it is perceived (as in phenomenology), but the "intra-action" (a term
with which she replaces "interaction" so as not run the risk of talking
about relations between two pre-existing elements, like subject/object)of an
object and the measuring agencies, which both emerge from intra-action.
Phenomena in Barad's sense are real physical entities (which makes her a
realist, not a constructionist) that nonetheless are not given as separate
in advance. Surely, they do not pertain to perception as the faculty of an
autonomous subject.
What follows is necessarily a post-humanist philosophy, about continuous
mediations, hybrids, simulations, enactments and performances, whereas the
phenomenon in phenomenology still belongs to a humanist philosophy that
looks for correspondences between subjects and objects, still relying on a
narrative of divisions (such as interiority/exteriority).
Best,
Federica
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