Publications : Theory : Karen Barad : Nature’s Queer Performativity

Front cover: Publications : Theory : Karen Barad : Nature’s Queer Performativity.
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Karen Barad – feminist, philosopher, and particle physicist – has, since the turn of the millennium, created a rare and refreshing contribution to contemporary thought. In 2021, they held an online lecture at AHC in connection with Lea Porsagers exhibition STRIPPED at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Following this, we are publishing Nature’s Queer Performativity, which is the first translation of Barad into Danish. In the essay, Barad discusses queer ontologies and the ethical obligation towards non/humans, arguing that nature is fundamentally queer – crisscrossed and in the most wonderfully perverse way.
“How can one think about the possibility of queerness in one of the most common of all beings – atoms? These ‘ultraqueer’ beings – with their quantum-everyday properties – queer the very idea of queerness in their radically deconstructive ways of being. The aim is to show that all sorts of seemingly impossibilities are actually possible, including queerness in causality, matter, time, and space,” from Nature’s Queer Performativity.
THE PUBLICATION CAN BE BOUGHT HERE