Karen Barad quotes

“Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers”
-- Karen Barad

Source : "New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies". Book by Rick Dolphijn, Iris van der Tuin, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2012.

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“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.”
-- Karen Barad

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“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.”
-- Karen Barad

Source : "'Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers'". "Meeting Utrecht Halfway", quod.lib.umich.edu. June 6, 2009.

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“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”

“I don't look at myself as suffering.”

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”

“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”

“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan

“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

“Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.”

“When all else fails, complicate matters”

“Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.”