Barad, Karen

"Indeterminacy is not a failure of science but its condition."

"Meaning is made through material practices."

"We cannot escape our responsibility through claims of objectivity."

"The world exceeds our categories and frameworks."

"Being and knowing are inseparable."

"Matter matters; it is not mere backdrop."

"Quantum mechanics reveals the fundamental relationality of the world."

"We must account for our situatedness in knowledge production."

"Boundaries are effects of practices, not fixed features."

"Accountability means responding to what we have helped bring into being."

"The excluded is always present as a haunting absence."

"We are answerable to the world we help constitute."

"Realism requires embracing entanglement, not transcending it."

"Reflexivity without reflexes is empty."

"The apparatus and the phenomena are mutually constitutive."

"We cannot know the world from nowhere."

"Ethicality is not about intentions but about effects."

"The other is always already part of me."

"Particularity is not opposed to universality."

"The question is not whether we affect the world but how we do so responsibly."

"Matter and meaning are co-produced."

"Difference is not external but emergent."

"We must become response-able to the world."

"The natural and the social are not separate."

"Performativity constitutes the subject and object."

"Responsibility cannot be delegated or deferred."

"We are made and making in the same moment."

"Epistemology is not innocent; it is always political."

"The world speaks to us through the traces of our intra-actions."

"Being is a process of iterative intra-acting."