is the ethics of developing nuclear weapons to argue this point, by claiming that the ethics and politics are part of how such weapons were developed and understood, and therefore part of science, and not merely of the "philosophy of science" or the "ethics of science." This differs from the usual view that one can strive for a politics-free, bias-less science. Nevertheless, they argue against epistemological relativism, and offer an important alternative to the usual conception of objectivity. They also reject the idea that science is "only" a language game or set of fictions produced only by human constructions and concepts. Although the scientist is part of the "intra-action" of the experiment, humans (and their cultural constructs) do not have complete control over everything that happens. Barad expresses this point by saying, in "Getting Real," that although scientists shape knowledge about the universe, you can't ignore the way the universe "kicks back." These points on science, agency, ethics, and knowledge reveal that Barad's work is similar to the projects of other science studies scholars such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Andrew Pickering, and Evelyn Fox Keller. Selected bibliography Books Chapters in books Journal articles Abstract. Reprinted in various anthologies. See also Queer Theory Feminist Studies Michel Foucault Niels Bohr Epistemology Donna Haraway Technoscience References External links Karen Barad's UCSC web page Joseph Rouse's discussion of agential realism, available on MUSE Review of Getting Real at the Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 1956 births 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers 21st-century American physicists American women philosophers Continental philosophers Epistemologists Feminist philosophers Living people Ontologists Philosophers of physics Postmodern feminists Theoretical physicists University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Philosophers from California Stony Brook University alumni Philosophers of science 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Quantum mysticism advocates