HOST: Matt Sorola
Location: Online - Zoom meeting
In this session, we explore Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway and its underexamined insights into accountability. Barad’s concept of spacetimemattering reframes accountability as an ethical practice intrinsic to the process of measurement, or “agential cuts,” which shape both what is known and what can exist. Using examples from financial, management, counter-, and sustainability accounting, the discussion will challenge conventional views, shifting focus from organisations to the accountability of accountants and their apparatuses in shaping reality.
This discussion will be guest-hosted by Hendrik Vollmer (Warwick), Eija Vinnari (Tampere), and Matias Laine (Tampere), who will guide us through their exploration of Barad’s ideas and their implications for understanding accounting and its ethical challenges in organisational practice.
Join us as we reflect on how Barad’s ideas deepen our understanding of the ethical challenges facing contemporary accounting practices and their entanglement with the politics of organising. This session will offer a unique perspective on how accounting contributes to—and is shaped by—the complex web of spacetimemattering in our pluriversal world.
Thu 16 Jan 2025
TIME: 14:00–15:00 BST
