Barad, Karen

"Matter is neither passive nor determinate; it is actively engaged in the process of becoming."

"The self is not a pre-given entity but is continually constituted through its intra-actions with others."

"Responsibility is responsiveness; it is the ability to respond, to be answerable, to take account."

"We cannot step outside the entanglement that constitutes us; we can only attempt to enact it more responsibly."

"The realist/constructivist binary fails to capture the productive nature of intra-action."

"Spacetimemattering is the proper framework for understanding how worlds come into being."

"The boundary between nature and culture is not a given; it is a performative effect of ongoing intra-actions."

"To account for agency without relying on human exceptionalism, we must think with agential realism."

"The cut between observer and observed is itself an intra-action that must be carefully accounted for."

"Ethics demands that we attend to the exclusions performed by our knowledge practices and take responsibility for them."

"Things do not have inherent properties; their properties emerge through specific intra-actions."

"We must resist the seduction of transparency and instead think carefully about what our practices make visible and invisible."

"The apparatus is part of the natural world; there is no transcendent vantage point from which to observe nature."

"Intra-action is a concept that allows us to think about agency without presupposing pre-existing agents or patients."

"Reality is not given; it is an ongoing achievement, iteratively performed through material practices."

"The question of responsibility cannot be separated from the question of what kinds of realities our practices enact."

"We are accountable for the differences our practices make, not only in knowledge but in the material constitution of the world."

"Diffractive methodology allows us to attend to the productive nature of difference without relying on binaries."

"Matter is not a stage; it is an active participant in the making of phenomena, meanings, and bodies."

"The notion of the social construction of reality fails to attend to the material specificity of intra-actions."

"We cannot have secure ground for knowledge; we can only navigate the uncertainties and contingencies of intra-action."

"Responsibility is an ongoing process of responding to the world in ways that account for our implication in its becoming."

"The boundaries of bodies are not self-evident; they are effects of specific intra-actions and material practices."

"To think with agential realism is to refuse the exceptionalism of the human and to attend to the agency of matter itself."

"Exclusions and inclusions are not merely discursive; they have material effects on which worlds come into being."

"We must learn to think the entanglement of ethics, politics, and ontology as inseparable from epistemology."

"The apparatus is not external to nature; it is part of the intra-action through which natural phenomena are produced."

"Diffractive readings attend to particularity without relying on representation or mirroring."

"Agency belongs not to subjects but to intra-actions; it is the ongoing reconfiguring of possibilities within phenomena."

"We are always implicated in the world we seek to understand; this implication is the condition of possibility for knowledge."