The majority of the discussion centered around the first point of Barad’s framework: agential realism grounds and situates knowledge claims in local experiences. Does the notion that knowledge is embodied and local impede theorizing? Some of the participants felt that agential realism has similar limitations in theorizing as ANT, while others emphasized that in agential realism theorizing happens in the detailed description of physical apparatus, as a description of the agentially positioned constructed cut between the object and the agencies of observation. One of the interesting points of agential realism is its emphasis on the agency of the material, as well as the interlinked agencies of the object and the observer. In addition, the locality of knowledge does not necessarily mean its spatial position, but relates to the constructed boundaries, so theorizing also happens in the boundary-making. Framing and focus matter, and they also have real-life implications. According to the third point of the framewor Haraway, Donna: 1985, ‘Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’ ,Socialist Review, 80, 65–108, (reprinted in Haraway, 1991).

Hayles, N. Katherine: 1993, ‘Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Inquiry in the Theater of Representation’, in Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture, ed. by George Levin. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. Agential realism grounds and situates knowledge claims in local experiences: objectivity is literally embodied. Bohr, Niels: 1963a ,The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. I: Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature. Woodbridge, Conn: Ox Bow Press. The main problem I had reading the book were the long chapters, where halfway you forget what the chapter was supposed to argue in the first place. Barad, K. (2017b). What flashes up: Theological-political-scientific fragments. In C. Keller & M.-J. Rubenstein (Eds.), Entangled worlds: Religion, science, and new materialisms (pp. 21–88). Fordham University Press.The book also discusses some fields of research in quantum physics that lay the foundations for the ideas presented here. Experiments like the quantum eraser experiment are explained in detail and Barad also talks about the partly contradicting theories of Einstein and Bohr. It's interesting how many questions are still left unanswered. Murris, K., Reynolds, R., & Peers, J. (2018). Reggio Emilia inspired philosophical teacher education in the Anthropocene: Posthuman child and the family (tree). Journal of Childhood Studies: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Early Childhood Environmental Education Special Issue, 43(1), 15–29. Meeting the Universe Halfway is highly original, exciting, and important. In this book Karen Barad puts her expertise in feminist studies and quantum physics to superb use, offering agential realism as an important alternative to representationalism.” — Arthur Zajonc, coauthor of The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

Murris, K. (2021b). The ‘missing peoples’ of critical posthumanism and new materialism. In K. Murris (Ed.), Navigating the postqualitative, new materialist and critical posthumanist terrain across disciplines: An introductory guide (pp. 62–85). Routledge. k, the theorizing also happens in-phenomenon, and hence detailed descriptions and framing become a part of theory building. Barad builds out from the philosophyphysics of Neils Bohr, the Danish physicist widely credited with having developed the main principles of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. She merged the two words “philosophy” and “physics” into one, contending that Bohr did not separate them, and going on to imply that we shouldn’t either. One of Bohr’s firm beliefs arguably lies at the heart of the matter, namely that we -- scientists, observers, curious people -- are a part of whatever reality we may study. From the basis Bohr provides, she builds, absorbing much, expanding occasionally, objecting rarely. This book challenges the entire epistemological framework with which we think. It explains the history and workings of quantum mechanics and uses it to build this framework.TSElosophers meeting 15.5.2020. Ekaterina Panina, Erkki Lassila, Kari Lukka, Milla Wirén, Morgan Shaw, Otto Rosendahl, Toni Ahlqvist Barad, K. (1996). Meeting the universe halfway: Realism and social constructivism without contradiction. In Feminism, science, and the philosophy of science (pp. 161-194). Summary In Meeting the Universe Halfway, Barad takes us carefully through the science, the science studies, and the critical theory that inform her arguments. One of the most impressive things about this book is her facility in each of these disciplinary modes of inquiry. She provides an excellent overview of science studies. . . . Barad writes . . . in a way that is accessible to the lay reader, but that nonetheless provides rigorous descriptions and illustrations. . . . Barad’s posthumanist performative ethics is among the most promising of posthuman philosophies for animal studies, one that promises to make the ‘post’ not just beyond humanism or the human-as-currently-conceived, but rather a ‘post’ to an anthropocentric world.” — Sherryl Vint, Science Fiction Studies Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press.