Barad, Karen

"The universe does not exist independently of our measurements of it."

"Agency is not a property of atoms, people, or ideas, but a phenomenon of intra-action."

"We cannot know the world without being part of its knowing."

"Accountability is not about casting blame but about recognizing our role in worldmaking."

"Quantum entanglement is not just a physical phenomenon but an ontological principle."

"The world is intelligible precisely because we are part of it."

"Exclusions are never innocent—they always have political and ethical consequences."

"Matter is not passive; it actively participates in the production of phenomena."

"We are responsible for the specific cuts we make in describing the world."

"Knowledge practices are always entangled with relations of power."

"The boundary between the inside and outside of the body is performatively enacted."

"Intra-action is a neologism that emphasizes the inseparability of agencies in the production of phenomena."

"We cannot escape the consequences of our knowledge practices."

"The world is fundamentally relational and material."

"Objectivity requires acknowledging our subjective implication in what we study."

"Agency is distributed across human and non-human actors."

"The universe is not waiting to be discovered but to be created through our engagements with it."

"Accountability means responding to the call of the Other without the possibility of absolution."

"Matter is not a noun but a verb—it is always in the process of becoming."

"The boundaries of self are not given but continuously redrawn through interaction with the world."

"We must attend to the specificity of our situatedness in knowledge production."

"Agential realism is a philosophy of immanence that refuses transcendence."

"The apparatus is not a neutral tool but an active participant in what becomes knowable."

"Exclusion and inclusion are always at stake in knowledge practices."

"We are responsible for our inheritance even if we did not choose it."

"The meaning of quantum mechanics lies in its radical rethinking of the nature of reality."

"Responsibility is not a choice but an obligation imposed by our entanglement with the world."

"The world is not composed of independent entities but of entangled relationalities."

"Matter has agency, and we must learn to respond to it."

"Knowledge is a political practice that shapes what can be known about reality."