Barad, Karen

"The boundaries between inside and outside, self and world, are constantly being redrawn."

"We cannot have a direct, unmediated access to reality."

"Intra-actions produce the distinctions that matter—literally and figuratively."

"Accountability requires a shift from a subject-centered to a relational ontology."

"The universe is responsive to our practices of measurement and observation."

"We are always responsible for what we fail to see as much as for what we do see."

"Agency is not something an entity possesses but something entities do in relation to each other."

"The specificity of the apparatus determines what can be known."

"We must learn to live with the ambiguity and uncertainty that agential realism entails."

"Exclusion and erasure are always effected through the apparatus of knowledge production."

"Matter is not inert but participates actively in the production of meaning and meaning-making."

"Agential realism requires us to rethink the relationship between knowledge and power."

"We are entangled with the world in ways that exceed our comprehension."

"The boundaries of the body are provisional and contingent."

"We must account for the role of the apparatus in bringing phenomena into being."

"Accountability is not about assigning blame but about recognizing our implication in worldmaking."

"The world is not given but made through specific material practices."

"Exclusion is a necessary but potentially violent dimension of any knowledge claim."

"Matter is not a passive substance but an active participant in the production of phenomena."

"We cannot step outside the world to view it from a position of objectivity."

"The specificity of our situatedness in knowledge production is crucial to understanding."

"Agency is an enactment that emerges from material entanglements."

"We are responsible for attending to what is silenced and excluded in knowledge production."

"The universe is intelligible through our material engagements with it."

"Intra-action names the inseparability of agencies in the production of phenomena."

"We must acknowledge our complicity in systems of knowledge and power."

"Matter does not exist prior to relationality; relationality brings matter into being."

"The boundaries between observer and observed, knower and known, are performatively constituted."

"Accountability requires responding to alterity without the comfort of closure."

"We are always already implicated in the world we seek to understand."