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Agents of Reality
For Monday we are reading two articles by Karen Barad, "A Feminist Approach to Teaching Quantum Physics" and "Scientific Literacy--> Agential Literacy= (Learning + Doing) Science Responsibly." By calling attention to the responsibilities of scientists, we are wrapping up this part of the course by asking: what should the modern expectations of the enterprise of science be and how might we get there? In the first article Barad proposes to extend the idea of agential reality to interrogate dualisms that occur in social dynamics (pg 68), beyond science. To what and how might this idea apply? Write about your take on these and/or other questions that arose from these readings.