Intra-action
Whitney Stark
Intra-action is a Baradian term used to replace ‘interaction,’ which necessitates pre-established bodies that then participate in action with each other. Intra-action understands agency as not an inherent property of an individual or human to be exercised, but as a dynamism of forces (Barad, 2007, p. 141) in which all designated ‘things’ are constantly exchanging and diffracting, influencing and working inseparably. Intra-action also acknowledges the impossibility of an absolute separation or classically understood objectivity, in which an apparatus (a technology or medium used to measure a property) or a person using an apparatus are not considered to be part of the process that allows for specifically located ‘outcomes’ or measurement.
synonym: agency, animacy, connectivity
antonym: disconnection, inanimacy, objectivity, singularity, vitalism
hypernym: phenomenology, connectivity, acknowledgement, respect
hyponym: interaction, exchange, movement
References
Barad, Karen. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.
COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter'.
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