Apparatus
Whitney Stark
An apparatus is a technology, structure or medium through which legibility or the measurement of a property is enabled. It is, however, not objective or neutral. It influences measurements in ways that the apparatus itself cannot detect; it is a part of the objects it enables as legible. When apparatuses shift, they can change history across spacetime (quantum erasure). Apparatuses are not only what has been traditionally understood as the mechanical parts of a system of measurement (Barad, 1998, p. 101-2). They include systems of thinking, objects, spatio-temporal properties, people and more-than-people; they are extremely localized. Apparatuses are phenomena.
Synonym: situated knowledge, making legible, structural operations, systematic understanding, medium, measurer, technology, definition-maker
Antonym: objectivity
Hypernym: understanding, technology, system, epistemology
Hyponym: language, theory, experiment machine, teleology, Cartesian sciences, ‘us’
References
Barad, K. (1998). "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, no. 10 (2), pp. 87-128.
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