Trying to Understand: Meeting the Universe Halfway
by Karen Barad
Chapter 1
A failure to identify the objective referent Halfway on the road to representing challenged to refer: interfere, intrafere Experiment to hone in on referent -- the objective referent we are seeking. The word 'interfere' like 'critical' Triggers a frown, sounds wrong; Intervene Shall they be rehabilitated to mean - something that loves action - waves phenomena Realism of entities misuses the representers who believe that entities are inviolate - with determined properties like ... font-size. Realism is often saddled with essentialism Non-relational font-size like 10 pixels instead could be .75 em or three-quarters of Realism based on phenomena is relational - the font-size x.xx em Words and things are not taken for granted nor is their correspondence a matching game where winning is 'truth' without an asterisk according to the game. To think about 'things' and 'words' after Structuralism is to allow ignoring the winning because the game's truth is not the truth we are seeking.