Barad, Karen

"Matter responds to us even as we respond to it."

"The future is open to our creative engagement."

"Accountability is a way of honoring our entanglement."

"The world is not made of independent things with intrinsic properties that exist prior to intra-action. The world is made through intra-actions - through the iterative reconfiguring of the boundaries and properties of the 'components' of phenomena."

"Onto-epistemology - the study of being and knowing are not separable; they are mutually implicated."

"We cannot know the world without being part of the world, without being entangled with it."

"Matter is not a substance but a doing - a congealing of agency."

"The idea that we can simply observe the world without changing it is a dangerous illusion."

"Intra-actions constitute the conditions for the possibility of mattering."

"Phenomena are the fundamental units of reality, not independent objects."

"We are not outside observers of the world; we are part of its unfolding."

"Agential realism challenges the notion of a pre-existing world waiting to be discovered."

"The excluded middles and silenced voices must be brought back into the picture of what matters."

"Responsibility is not something we have but something we enact continuously through our entanglements."

"Boundaries are not fixed lines but are continually redrawn through material practices."

"Meeting the universe halfway means acknowledging our role in its becoming."

"Scientific objectivity is not about distance but about accountability to the material world."

"We need to rethink the separation between the human and the non-human world."

"Iterative intra-actions reconfigure both the observer and the observed."

"The boundary between self and world is not stable but continuously contested and remade."

"Diffraction offers a new way of thinking about difference and identity."

"We cannot escape responsibility by claiming objectivity or distance from our objects of study."

"Material practices have performative effects that matter profoundly."

"The world is not a static stage upon which human actors perform; it is itself an active participant."

"Ethics and physics cannot be separated - they are woven together in the fabric of reality."

"Quantum mechanics reveals that observation is not passive but constitutive of reality."

"We must attend to the material dimensions of knowledge production."

"The apparatus of observation shapes what can appear as real or meaningful."

"Accountability requires that we acknowledge our complicity in the world we study."

"Intra-action is a key concept for understanding how meaning and matter emerge together."