Barad, Karen

"The apparatus shapes not only what we can know but what we can be."

"Exclusion and inclusion are not neutral but laden with ethical and political implications."

"Matter is creative and generative; it exceeds our attempts to contain it."

"Agential realism demands a rethinking of the politics of representation."

"We must attend to the specificities of our location in the world."

"The world is not made of things-in-themselves, but of intra-acting phenomena that constitute each other."

"Responsibility is not an obligation that follows from some presumed debt to a radically exterior other; rather, responsibility is responsiveness/ability to respond."

"Matter matters. It is not merely the stage upon which history unfolds; it is an active participant in the unfolding of history."

"Agency is not something that someone has; it is not a possession. Agency is doing/being."

"We are responsible not for the world, but to the world, and this responsibility requires us to think carefully about our intra-actions."

"Boundaries between self and other are not given but continuously (re)produced through ongoing intra-actions."

"The separate existence of space and time is a remnant of pre-relativistic thinking."

"Knowledge is not about representing an independent reality; it is about responsibly engaging with the world in which we are always already implicated."

"Quantum mechanics reveals that the classical distinction between subject and object is untenable."

"We cannot disentangle ourselves from the world because we are of the world and the world is of us."

"Ethical and political questions cannot be separated from epistemological and ontological ones."

"Matter is generative; it is lively and vibratory, alive with its own intra-active possibilities."

"Difference-making is the hallmark of reality; what matters is what makes a difference."

"We are entangled with the world we seek to understand; we are not separate observers."

"The boundary between human and non-human is a performative effect of practices, not a pre-existing fact."

"Intra-action, not interaction, is the proper ontological framework for understanding reality."

"Time is not a container in which events occur; temporality is an effect of intra-action."

"Accountability requires us to recognize our implication in the world and our responsibility for our choices."

"The apparatus is not a container within which nature reveals itself; the apparatus is part of the enactment of nature."

"Measurement is not a neutral act of observation; it is an intra-action that reconfigures the phenomena being measured."

"Reality is fundamentally relational; there are no independent, self-contained entities."

"Matter and meaning are inseparably intertwined in the constitution of reality."

"The notion of representation presupposes a gap between signifier and signified that must be overcome; but this gap is itself a fiction."

"Ethics is not something added to ontology after the fact; it is an integral part of what it means to be in the world."

"We must learn to become accountable to and for the cuts that we make, the distinctions we draw, the exclusions we perform."