Quantum Creativity: Afracting New Materialism in the Anthropocene. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: jagodzinski, jan
• Other Names: Harris Daniel guest-editor.; Rousell David guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 28:Number 5(2022)
• Page Start: 586
• Page End: 595
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: new materialism -- quantum -- Barad -- Deleuze and Guattari -- anorganic; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/10778004211066633
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This essay engages the vicissitudes of new materialism at the quantum level, attempting to differentiate what I take to be fundamental differences in the theoretical positions of vitalist theories as developed by Karen Barad and Deleuze and Guattari in relation to the Anthropocene. I treat matter at the quantum level to differentiate conceptions of apparatus and assemblage. It is argued that one should not treat them under the same signifiers. There is the question of creativity that runs through the essay which also raises questions concerning an "affirmative" Deleuze, the dominant position when it comes to the arts, humanities, and pedagogy. Against these particular developments, anorganic life as in|different comes to fore where issues of creative destruction must be faced.