Philosophy Quotes

"The world is characterized by the impossibility of any position of absolute exteriority."

"Ontology is not a static description of what exists; it is an ongoing enactment of reality."

"Diffracting through the philosophy of physics offers insights for thinking about social and political concerns."

"The notion of independent agency fails to account for the constitutive role of otherness in the production of difference."

"The boundaries of the subject are not fixed but are continually produced and reproduced through intra-actions."

"To do ontology is to engage in contested practices that have real, material, consequential effects on the world."

"We are always already caught up in the process of mattering that we attempt to understand."

"Queer temporalities and spatial arrangements are not merely metaphorical; they are ontological commitments."

"The realist/constructivist binary fails to capture the productive nature of intra-action."

"To account for agency without relying on human exceptionalism, we must think with agential realism."

"Intra-action is a concept that allows us to think about agency without presupposing pre-existing agents or patients."

"The notion of the social construction of reality fails to attend to the material specificity of intra-actions."

"To think with agential realism is to refuse the exceptionalism of the human and to attend to the agency of matter itself."

"We are always implicated in the world we seek to understand; this implication is the condition of possibility for knowledge."

"The cut between subject and object, nature and culture, is performatively enacted through material intra-actions."

"The modern world demands speed but the human soul requires depth."

"The acceleration society leaves no room for contemplation."

"Meaning cannot be mass-produced or efficiently delivered."

"Modern life militates against the formation of a coherent self."

"The world is not made up of atoms; it is made up of stories."

"The monster is not the problem; the problem is thinking binaries."

"The Anthropocene is less an epoch than a symptom of bad thinking."

"The question is not what things are, but what they do."

"The world is full of non-human agencies with which we must negotiate."

"The separation between nature and society is a modernist fantasy."

"The world is not a text; it is a living, material reality."

"We must cultivate the capacity to live well with ambiguity and complexity."

"We need to think of ourselves as nomadic subjects, always in transit, always becoming something different."

"The posthuman condition requires us to move beyond anthropocentrism and embrace interconnectedness."

"We are not unified subjects but rather assemblages of multiple becomings."