Book review: The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks. Murris, K.

The Posthuman Child, writes about the concept of the apparatus, based on Niels Bohr's work. This is a different way of thinking about apparatus than we are normally used to -here it is not seen as an instrument for observation, not as a thing, but rather as a doing. Karen Barad describes apparatuses as open-ended practices which create boundaries. More particularly, she sees apparatuses as 'specific material arrangements and materialdiscursive practices, which provide determinate meanings for concepts and things, entailing exclusions to make them intelligible', in this way 'enacting what matters and what is excluded from mattering' (Barad, 2007: 148).