Barad, Karen

"We must develop epistemologies that account for the agency of matter."

"The problem is not that science is objective but that we misunderstand what objectivity means."

"Ontology and epistemology are not prior to ethics but are constitutively entangled with it."

"The apparatus is not something that observes the world but something that enacts a specific materialization of it."

"We are called to respond-ability - the ability to respond to the material entanglements we inhabit."

"The natural world is not a resource to be managed but a living participant in the becoming of the world."

"Quantum indeterminacy is not a limitation of our knowledge but a fundamental feature of reality."

"The notion of a stable, knowable object is itself an effect of specific intra-actions."

"We must attend to the excluded possibilities, the paths not taken, the mattering that has been silenced."

"Diffraction reveals how difference is produced through relational specificity, not through external comparison."

"The ethical and the political are woven into the fabric of every scientific practice."

"We cannot understand the world without understanding how we are implicated in its production."

"Matter is not inert; it responds, it matters, it participates in the unfolding of the world."

"The Cartesian dream of a view from nowhere has obscured our responsibilities to the world."

"Intra-acting is a more fundamental concept than interaction because it acknowledges the inseparability of actors and world."

"We are always already entangled; the question is how we take responsibility for that entanglement."

"The pursuit of certainty in science has often come at the cost of erasing otherness and difference."

"New materialisms insist that matter is not a backdrop for human activity but an active force."

"The boundaries we draw around phenomena have real effects on what can be known and what must be forgotten."

"Accountability is not about individual responsibility but about how we are entangled in systems of power and meaning-making."

"We must learn to think of the world not as divided into human and non-human but as fundamentally relational."

"The cuts that constitute phenomena are not innocent; they distribute agency and responsibility in particular ways."

"Scientific knowledge emerges through iterative intra-actions that reconfigure both knower and known."

"We are meeting the universe halfway - not discovering a pre-existing world but enacting particular configurations of it."

"The question of what matters is inseparable from the question of what is real."

"Posthumanist performativity helps us move beyond the idea of language or discourse as constitutive of reality."

"Matter is not opposed to meaning; materiality is always saturated with significance and meaning-making."

"We must develop new ethical and political vocabularies for the world we are creating."

"The excluded and the marginalized must be brought back into the calculus of what matters and what can be."

"Diffraction is not about sameness or difference but about how patterns of significance are produced through iterative configurations."