In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism (Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research)

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 agenti