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Quantum Physics and/as Philosophy: Immanence, Diffraction, and the Ethics of Mattering

2016; Bowling Green State University; Issue: 30 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20415/rhiz/030.e04

1555-9998

Kathrin Thiele,

Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

Karen Barad's work distinguishes itself as a diffraction pattern of quantum physics, feminist/queer thought and/as philosophy.In order to gauge the ethico-onto-epistemological impact that the shift toward 'quantum' has on theorizations of what we call 'world' and 'Being'-those 'big' philosophical questions-it helps to relate her thought to other philosophical endeavors that also work on this foundational level.In this contribution I propose to read Barad's quantum ontology alongside Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's urgent quest of immanence.It is this concern for immanence, according to their final collaboration What is Philosophy?, which still has to be seen as "the burning issue of all philosophy".[T]he becoming of the world is a deeply ethical matter.-Karen Barad (Meeting 185) Arrive at the magic formula we all seek-PLURALISM = MONISM -Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Thousand 20)[1] Karen Barad's work distinguishes itself as a diffraction pattern of quantum physics, feminist/queer thought and/as philosophy.In order to gauge the impact that this shift toward 'quantum' has on conceptualizations and theorizations of what we call 'world' and 'Being'-those 'big' philosophical questions-it is helpful to relate her thought to other philosophical endeavors that also work at and on this foundational level.What my short contribution wants to show is how and that Barad's quantum ontology can be read most productively alongside Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's quest of immanence.This concern for immanence, according to them, still has to be seen as "the burning issue of all philosophy" (Deleuze/Guattari What Is 45).[2] Barad's quantum indeterminacy as onto-epistemological condition provides a most attuned 'image of thought' for Deleuze and Guattari's 'founding' plane of immanence.And by thinking their ontology of becoming with Barad's agential realism, a new line of flight for ethics can also be developed that, in resonances with Levinas, becomes 'first philosophy' (ethico-onto-epistemology).In a second step,