Collaboratory in Critical Security Methods
The International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies is an ESRC funded project (RES-810-21-0072)
Barad (1998) Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality
Barad, Karen (1998), "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality". In: Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, no. 2, pp 87-128
In this article, Karen Barad examines the relation between the material and the discursive more generally by considering the piezoelectric crystal as a material instrument. A more robust understanding of materialism, as developed in Barad's theory of agential realism, enables feminists and other liberatory theorists to take account of the ways in which "matter comes to matter", including the active role of material constraints and conditions within a theoretical framework that acknowledges poststructuralism and Marxist insights exploring matter's multiple modes of 'mediation'.