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What is Entanglement

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
Entanglement refers to a deeply relational account of Being (ontology) in which entities/bodies never pre-exist as separate bodies with clear and determined boundaries that then combine or interact with other pre-existing bodies. Agents/bodies/entities do not precede their observations or relationships; rather, they emerge intra-actively and are always already entangled.
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A Radical More-Than-Human Intersectionality in Ecologically Compromised Times: Toward an Attunement to Nonhumans and Indigenous Knowledges
Sanita Fejzic (Queen's University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch028
Abstract
Gender-based analysis+(GBA+) efforts by the Canadian government that attend to climate change often focus on ‘sustainable management' of ‘resources' alongside inclusion of vulnerable groups at decision-making tables; meanwhile, scholars and activists focus attention toward eco- and social-justice models couched in good nation-to-nation relations with Indigenous communities. This chapter suggests that attunement to Indigenous knowledges and other-than-humans (nonhuman animals, plants, and elements such as water) is necessary in the wake of global ecological collapse, founded on principles of responsibility and respect of Indigenous sovereignty over land and attunement to Indigenous ‘caretaking relations' with other-than-humans.
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Memories of the Cruel Radiance: The Lost Art of Autopathography
The notion of entanglement is central to Karen Barad’s (2007) distinction between intra and interaction, and the distinction between objects that are separable, and phenomena, which are inherently more fluid.
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Hidden Treasures of Semiconducting Materials for Quantum Computing: An Upcoming Fortune for Supercomputing
Entanglement is a quantum mechanical effect that correlates the behavior of two separate things. When two qubits are entangled, changes to one qubit directly impact the other. Quantum algorithms leverage those relationships to find solutions to complex problems.
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Trauma and Memory in Women's Photographic Practice: A Diffractive Posthuman Approach
My posthuman or new materialist understanding of ‘entanglement’ relates to Karen Barad’s (2007) idea that entities are ontologically inseparable - they do not exist in isolation, even if they appear to be independent. ‘Entanglement’ thus describes a field of relations that materialise entities through their intra-action. In a field of relations, for example: a particular scene, observation, materials, photographic apparatus, history, memory, imagination and processes of production, phenomena emerge through their intra-active entanglement. In this way, the separation of the artist and artwork, or researcher and research, might be more productively thought-together - constituted through their ‘entangled’ field of relations.
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Plastic Pollution and Its Impact on Biodiversity
Plastic entanglement is a widespread issue resulting from plastic pollution in aquatic and land biodiversity. It refers to animals trapped in abandoned plastic debris, such as fishing nets, lines, ropes, and packaging materials. It results in physical injury, strangulation, and immobilisation. Many aquatic animals like seals, sea lions, turtles and whales get entangled in fishing nets or other plastic debris, leading to the inability to swim, fly, or move freely. Which eventually leads to death.
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