Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(3), 801–831. doi:10.1086/345321.
Not read: no lawful full text was reached on 2026-10-27 (see the status note). The summary is drawn from what the work is standardly cited for, the exchange’s description and the passages quoted in NOTE-1230 and NOTE-1220.
Why this is here
A4 recommended it as “a much shorter entry point that presents intra- action, agential cuts, agency, and material-discursive practices”, and A6 §1 and A9 §11 cite it for apparatuses as evolving material practices through which local determinacy emerges. It is the primary source for the sense of apparatus and agential cut in TERM-087, and the weakest footing of CLAIM-476, which compares luria with it. The record held Barad only at second hand, through Griesemer and Shavit’s borrowing of intra-action (NOTE-173) and Meincke’s (NOTE-115).