Barad, Karen

"Specific material configurations produce specific material realities."

"The universe is not a static given but an ongoing achievement, a process of becoming."

"Agential realism offers an alternative to both representationalism and relativism."

"Exclusions performed in the name of knowledge are themselves political effects that demand scrutiny."

"The atom bomb demands that we rethink our relation to nature and to the question of responsibility."

"Bodies are not simply born; they are continually iteratively (re)produced through intra-actions."

"Science is a productive practice that generates knowledge and reality simultaneously."

"The world is characterized by the impossibility of any position of absolute exteriority."

"We must resist the temptation to return to representationalism, to the idea that language or discourse mirrors reality."

"Ontology is not a static description of what exists; it is an ongoing enactment of reality."

"The problem with representationalism is that it assumes a fundamental gulf between word and world."

"Matter is not a given; it is continuously produced and reproduced through practices and intra-actions."

"Agency is the ongoing reconfiguring of possibilities within iteratively intra-acting phenomena."

"We cannot stand outside the world and observe it objectively; objectivity is a material effect of intra-actions."

"Diffracting through the philosophy of physics offers insights for thinking about social and political concerns."

"The cut between measuring instrument and measured object is not pre-given but constituted through intra-actions."

"Responsibility requires accountability for the iterative re(con)figurations of the world through which we are continually made."

"Material phenomena are intra-acts rather than inter-acts; they cannot be reduced to interactions between pre-existing entities."

"The notion of independent agency fails to account for the constitutive role of otherness in the production of difference."

"We must attend carefully to the material specificities of practices through which worlds are made."

"Knowledge production is not a representation of reality; it is a material practice that contributes to the making of reality."

"The boundaries of the subject are not fixed but are continually produced and reproduced through intra-actions."

"To do ontology is to engage in contested practices that have real, material, consequential effects on the world."

"Diffractive readings offer a way of attending to specificities, differences, and exclusions without relying on a subject of knowledge."

"The atom bomb is not simply a technological object; it is a material assemblage whose making implicated scientists, military, and politics."

"We are always already caught up in the process of mattering that we attempt to understand."

"There is no escaping implication; complicity is inevitable, but so is the possibility of responsible reckoning."

"Queer temporalities and spatial arrangements are not merely metaphorical; they are ontological commitments."

"The apparatus is not neutral; it is productive of the phenomena it measures and the knowledge it generates."

"We must think carefully about the exclusions that our knowledge practices enact and the responsibilities this entails."