Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for
numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume,
Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential
realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate
natural and social realms, agential realism is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and
ethics. The starting point for Barad's analysis is the philosophical framework of quantum …