
You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

Barad is suggesting that quantum leaps occur in liminal or in-between spaces that have no direct correlates in our classical conceptualization of reality. Perhaps this “space between things” transcends our individuality and is about connection. Whether we refer to this liminal space as [I/we] or [whole/parts], it can be a powerful source of quantum
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To address climate change, biodiversity loss, global inequality, and other sustainability issues, we have to tell different and more meaningful stories.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
For example, “collaboration” can mean working with someone to produce something, or it can mean traitorous cooperation with an enemy.16 This means that we can talk about collaborating to develop alternatives to fossil fuels, or we can talk about collaborating with oil companies through continued financial investments. Although concepts can have mul
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For Karen Barad, entanglement implies that “The very nature and possibilities for change are reworked.”10
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
John Horgan describes humanity as “matter that yearns to matter.”1
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
Since the English language currently does not have the words to express the nuances of quantum relationships, a forward slash and square brackets will be used here as an interim symbol to communicate relational interdependence, such as [whole/parts], [I/we], and [both/and]. While this may appear inconsequential, symbols can create deep roots in the
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In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire writes that “Many persons, bound to a mechanistic view of reality, do not perceive that the concrete situation of individuals conditions their consciousness of the world, and that in turn this consciousness conditions their attitudes and their ways of dealing with reality. They think that reality can be tr
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From the perspective of entanglement, when a [whole/part] of the system changes, the system itself has changed.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
In contrast to a mechanistic and deterministic world, quantum physics describes a universe of indeterminacy, entanglement, superposition, complementarity, uncertainty, and not the least, potentiality.