Today’s episode presents an autistic and queer reading of Karen Barad’s agential realism and quantum physics. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explores how gestalt language processing (GLP) and autistic ways of knowing align with Barad’s concepts of intra-action and entanglement, arguing that perception is not passive reception but active participation in the world. Key themes include the body’s “pre-reflective world-making,” the concept of “Gestalt Intra-action” where meaning coheres from relation rather than sequence, and the ethics of entanglement which posits that responsibility arises from relationship, contrasting this relational approach with the behaviorist methods the author experienced as harmful. She uses personal sensory experiences, particularly memories of the San Francisco Tenderloin, to illustrate how meaning and safety are felt physically as “shimmer” or resonance before they are articulated intellectually.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/quantum-language-barad-gestalts-and

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