Here you can find all the resources from last week's Critical Physiotherapy Course seminar run by Tobba Sudmann. Tobba's talk was titled 'How to understand disability? On the making of disability though discourse, materiality and practice'. A huge thank you (again) to Tobba for her superb seminar. We had another really great turnout, and some inspiring new ideas. Audio recording (link) … [Read more...] about Resources for 5th Critical Physiotherapy Course
Jenny Setchell – Meeting the Universe Halfway – 30DoS #4
In this post, CPN co-founder and Exec member Jenny Setchell talks about Karen Barad's book Meeting the Universe Halfway. Spanish translation provided by CPN Exec member Alma Viviana Silva. Karen Barad, a quantum physicist and post-humanist philosopher, blew my mind with her first book. It is 500+ pages so quite a read, but well worth it. I particularly recommend this book for those of you who question what comes after social constructionism. Building on the work of theorists such as Butler, Hacking, Foucault, Deleuze and Haraway, as well as quantum physicist Bohr, Barad describes an ontology called ‘agential realism’. “Barad extends and partially revises Bohr’s philosophical views in … [Read more...] about Jenny Setchell – Meeting the Universe Halfway – 30DoS #4