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I agree with Flora. Barad's course offering would have made a lot more sense if she had provided more concrete examples as to how it differentiates between "Physics for Poets" and transcends into this utopia of parallel universes between physics and humanities. It is easy to sympathize frustration derived from a system that seems to be focused on simply continuing a cycle of myth telling and 'ignorance'. But I am also compelled to disagree.

Is there an assumed dualism between science and culture? If so, I never encountered it. I can concede that there is an assumed dualism, an "us versus them", mentality between humanities and science, or even, as she often notes, between philosophy and science. Yet I also percieve this dualism as primarily being used to define not the disciplines themselves but the people who practice them; I am scientists, or a science major, not a philosophy major. But the use of the word 'culture' to me means something different. Science has a culture. Barad talks about the culture of science.

Overall I found this reading to be quite... perplexing.