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
We are responsible not just for what we do but for what we don't do in the world's becoming.
Entanglement is not just quantum; it's the condition of our ethical lives.
To be entangled is to lack an individual identity; we are always already of each other.
Science is not about discovering pre-existing truths but participating in the world's intra-actions.
The cut that matters is the one that enacts boundaries and exclusions.
Feminism and physics meet in the entanglement of matter and discourse.
Reality is not given, but agential; it matters what matters.
In the diffraction pattern of life, differences interfere productively.
Our bodies are not separate from the world; they are phenomena in intra-action.
Posthumanism isn't about denying the human; it's about decentering it in the universe's dance.
Time is not linear; it's a topological manifold of possibilities.
Justice requires attending to the cuts we make in the fabric of spacetime.
The observer effect is not a flaw; it's the essence of participation.
Matter feels, desires, responds; it's alive with agency.
In the quantum realm, certainty is an illusion; entanglement is the truth.
We are not passive observers but active participants in the world's meaning-making.
Diffraction patterns reveal the multiplicities we overlook.
Ethics emerges from the intra-actions of the world, not from abstract principles.
The universe halfway meets us in every encounter.
Human exceptionalism dissolves in the quantum foam of relations.