Barad, Karen

"We cannot escape the apparatus; we can only become more attentive to how it shapes what matters."

"The entanglement of nature and culture, science and ethics, is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be inhabited responsibly."

"Intra-actions enact boundaries and exclude something in the production of intelligibility."

"The world is not made of atoms. It's made of entanglements."

"We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we are always already part of the world we're trying to understand."

"Agential realism demands that we take responsibility for what we help bring into being."

"Matter is not a thing but a doing—a congealing of agency."

"Observation is not a passive act of witnessing an external world."

"The boundary between self and world is not given in advance but is performatively enacted."

"We are responsible not just for what we do but for what we fail to do."

"Measuring devices are not neutral; they are part of the phenomenon being measured."

"The universe is intelligible, but intelligibility is not a property of the world alone."

"Quantum mechanics teaches us that reality is fundamentally relational."

"Exclusions matter—what is left out is as important as what is included."

"We cannot escape responsibility by claiming objectivity."

"The world is made through specific intra-actions, not through interactions between pre-existing entities."

"Phenomena are not located in individual things but in the space between them."

"Accountability requires recognizing our entanglement with what we study."

"Knowledge is a matter of responsibly engaging with the world."

"The apparatus shapes what can be known about reality."

"We are always implicated in the world we are studying."

"Agential realism offers an ontology that takes seriously our responsibility to the material world."

"Difference-making is constitutive of reality itself."

"There is no view from nowhere; all knowledge is situated and accountable."

"The boundaries of the body are not fixed but actively maintained through ongoing intra-actions."

"Matter is fundamentally creative and generative."

"We must attend to the excluded and the silenced in any knowledge claim."

"Representation is not a mirror of reality but a material practice that brings things into being."

"The separation between observer and observed is a problem, not a starting point."

"Ethical accountability begins with recognizing our entanglement with others."