Barad, Karen

Philosopher-Physicist American Born 1956 (age 70)

Developed agential realism and intra-action theory.

364 quotes

"We must cultivate accountability as a way of being."
Leadership
"The apparatus is part of the phenomenon, not external to it."
Science
"Exclusion is a productive force, not merely negative."
Philosophy
"We are not authors of the world; we are co-creators."
Creativity
"Identity is produced through iterative intra-actions."
Philosophy
"The future calls us to account for our past."
Time
"Touching and being touched constitute the world."
Relationships
"We must respond to the singularity of the other."
Kindness
"Science is a way of engaging responsibly with the world."
Science
"The cut is never final; it is always subject to re-cutting."
Philosophy
"We are responsible for the inheritances we pass forward."
Family
"Becoming is always already relational."
Change
"The apparatus constrains what can appear."
Knowledge
"We must learn to read the world differently."
Wisdom
"Matter is alive with possibility."
Hope
"Onto-epistemological accountability requires practices of diffracting."
Philosophy
"The observer is not innocent but implicated."
Truth
"We are answerable to what we exclude."
Justice
"The boundary between nature and culture is an effect of practice."
Philosophy
"Mutual constitution is the fundamental condition of existence."
Relationships
"We must become literate in the language of mattering."
Education
"The world is not indifferent; it responds to our actions."
Philosophy
"Responsibility is not a burden but a gift."
Gratitude
"We are made of the world; the world is made of us."
Philosophy
"Diffracting creates new possibilities for understanding."
Creativity
"The apparatus both enables and constrains."
Science
"We must engage in practices that honor what is silenced."
Justice
"Being and knowing are performances."
Philosophy
"The excluded other haunts the included same."
Philosophy
"We are responsible for the worlds we help bring into being."
Courage