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LIT-1673: Naturalized, Fundamental, and Feminist Metaphysics All at Once: The Case of Barad's Agential Realism

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-27 (NOTE-1230); worth reading as the only statement of the argument Barad's unrestricted scope needs, that some ontological features admit no approximation, and as the clearest account of the conception of agential realism Barad holds (naturalized, applied once) against the two she rejects (analogy, template). Its own answer to its question is that it is open, with individualism the plausibly approximable case and the dualisms the hard one.
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Tagsmetaphysics, philosophy-of-science, social-ontology
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1230 — Jaksland — Naturalized, fundamental, and feminist metaphysics all at once
Cited as “source” byTHEORY-1083 — Barad holds agential realism to be naturalized metaphysics justified by quantum mechanics and applied once, to the one reality, with its scope extended to the lifeworld; she rejects both reading it as an analogy and reading it as a template that quantum mechanics and other domains each instantiate, THEORY-1086 — A fundamental metaphysics bears on the metaphysics of the lifeworld only through features that admit no approximation; without any, a relational world can approximate one of separable individuals, and the independence of social theorizing from fundamental metaphysics is then real but contingent, on the size of Planck's constant, not principled

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Jaksland, R. (2024). Naturalized, fundamental, and feminist metaphysics all at once: The case of Barad’s agential realism. Hypatia, 39(2), 363–384. doi:10.1017/hyp.2023.114.

Read in full on 2026-10-27 (NOTE-1230).

Why this is here

The owner asked for “Rasmus Jaksland’s thoughts” at U6. A6 §5B called it the paper “most valuable for Nucleation’s unrestricted ambitions”, and its question of metaphysical approximation recurs at A9 §11 and A10 §4. It is the source of QUESTION-280. A6 drew a method from it: “The ambition can be unrestricted even when each specific inference has a carefully limited warrant.”

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