Introduction Tangled Matters

It is not just that we are entangled in matter—we subjects who read, write, and ruminate on what “we” are. We are materializations entangled in other materializations; we happen in our mattering. What matters in our ethics, our politics, our worlds entangles us in and as new materializations. And at...

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Published inEntangled Worlds p. 1
Main Authors CATHERINE KELLER, MARY-JANE RUBENSTEIN
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Fordham University Press 08.08.2017
Subjects
Anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Christianity
Ethnography
Ethnology
Jewish studies
Judaism
Materialism
Metaphysics
Microphysics
Ontology
Philosophy
Physical sciences
Physics
Political ethics
Political science
Politics
Practical theology
Quantum entanglement
Quantum mechanics
Quantum superposition
Religion
Religious practices
Spiritual belief systems
Theology
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ISBN0823276228
9780823276226
DOI10.2307/j.ctt1xhr73h.3

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Summary:It is not just that we are entangled in matter—we subjects who read, write, and ruminate on what “we” are. We are materializations entangled in other materializations; we happen in our mattering. What matters in our ethics, our politics, our worlds entangles us in and as new materializations. And at this juncture, it entangles scholarship in retrievals and rethinkings of matter itself. Even disciplines that struggle with long histories of disembodied transcendence are registering the effects. The “new materialisms” currently coursing through cultural, feminist, political, and queer theories seek to displace human privilege by attending to the agency of
ISBN:0823276228
9780823276226
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1xhr73h.3