Karen Barad
A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist known for developing the concept of 'agential realism' and her work on quantum physics and ethics.
Quotes by Karen Barad
The world is not a blank slate upon which we write our meanings, but an active participant in the production of meaning.
There is no absolute separation between observer and observed.
The world is not just a collection of individual entities, but a dynamic, intra-active whole.
We are always already in the middle of things.
The very notion of 'individual' is a product of specific intra-actions.
Ethics is about how we respond to the world, not just to other humans.
The world is an ongoing, open-ended process of materialization.
We need to embrace the radical contingency of the world.
The world is not a given, but a doing.
Our responsibility is to the ongoing becoming of the world.
Matter is not a thing but a doing, a congealing of agency.
We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because 'we' are of the world.
Intra-actions cut together/apart in figuring the world.
Ethics is not an add-on to physics, but part of its very fabric.
The universe is not made of independent objects, but of entangled phenomena.
Agency is not something possessed by humans; it is an enactment distributed across the world.
Diffraction is not just a tool for analysis, but a way of understanding difference.
Meaning is not inherent in the world but emerges through material engagements.
The void is full of mattering; absence is productive.
Quantum physics teaches us that reality is not fixed but performative.