Barad, Karen

"Agential realism demands that we take responsibility for the marks we make on the world."

"Matter is not a thing; it is a doing, a performance, an enactment."

"We are not outside observers of the world; we are part of it."

"Intra-actions constitute the world, not inter-actions between pre-existing entities."

"Entanglement is not a state of being but a way of being."

"The boundary between self and world is not fixed but continually redrawn."

"Responsibility emerges from our entanglement with others."

"We cannot separate the knower from the known; they are intra-acting."

"Measurement is not a passive observation but an active engagement."

"Reality is not predetermined but emerges through iterative intra-actions."

"Difference is produced, not pre-existing."

"Matter has agency; it is not passive or dead."

"We are accountable for the realities we help produce."

"The observer and the observed are inseparable."

"Onto-epistemology: how we know is bound up with what we are."

"Exclusions and erasures are as constitutive as inclusions."

"We must attend to the silences and absences in our narratives."

"Agency is not a possession but a responsiveness."

"The world is not a collection of independent objects."

"Relationships precede entities."

"Cutting together-apart produces differences that matter."

"We are responsible not just for what we do but for what we help become."

"Knowledge practices are material and political."

"Objectivity requires acknowledging our implication in what we study."

"The future is not fixed; it emerges through our choices."

"We must learn to think with matter, not just about it."

"Phenomena are not reducible to their parts."

"Ethical responsibility arises from our entanglement."

"The apparatus shapes what can be known."

"We are always already complicit in the world we study."