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
To theorize is to diffract; to understand is to interfere.
Our cuts have consequences; they mark the world irrevocably.
Quantum entanglement binds us ethically to the nonhuman.
Discourse is not just words; it's material practices that shape reality.
The world is not a stage; it's a laboratory of becoming.
In every measurement, we exclude possibilities, but they haunt the margins.
Love is an intra-action that reconfigures the world.
Phenomena are not events; they are the openness of the world.
To ignore the material turn is to remain blind to the world's agency.
Boundaries are not given; they are performed through cuts.
The past is not behind us; it's entangled in the present's unfolding.
Science fiction becomes fact when we enact new materialities.
Agency is iterative; it's the citational chain of mattering.
We are the world's diffraction grating, refracting its possibilities.
No individual acts; only phenomena do.
The ethics of knowing is the ethics of cutting together/apart.
In the laboratory of life, experiments are ethical interventions.
Matter and meaning are mutually implicated in the world's performativity.
To live is to intra-act; to die is to echo in the entanglements.
Quantum literacy demands we read the world diffractively.