Karen Barad

Anthropology American 1956 100 quotes

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

We are responsible not just for what we do but for what we don't do in the world's becoming.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Entanglement is not just quantum; it's the condition of our ethical lives.

Lecture at UC Santa Cruz 2010

To be entangled is to lack an individual identity; we are always already of each other.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Science is not about discovering pre-existing truths but participating in the world's intra-actions.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

The cut that matters is the one that enacts boundaries and exclusions.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Feminism and physics meet in the entanglement of matter and discourse.

Article in Signs 1998

Reality is not given, but agential; it matters what matters.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

In the diffraction pattern of life, differences interfere productively.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Our bodies are not separate from the world; they are phenomena in intra-action.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Posthumanism isn't about denying the human; it's about decentering it in the universe's dance.

Interview 2012

Time is not linear; it's a topological manifold of possibilities.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Justice requires attending to the cuts we make in the fabric of spacetime.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

The observer effect is not a flaw; it's the essence of participation.

Early paper on quantum feminism 1995

Matter feels, desires, responds; it's alive with agency.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

In the quantum realm, certainty is an illusion; entanglement is the truth.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

We are not passive observers but active participants in the world's meaning-making.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Diffraction patterns reveal the multiplicities we overlook.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Ethics emerges from the intra-actions of the world, not from abstract principles.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

The universe halfway meets us in every encounter.

Meeting the Universe Halfway 2007

Human exceptionalism dissolves in the quantum foam of relations.

Article in Theory, Culture & Society 2014