"'Subjects' and 'objects' do not preexist as such but are constituted through particular practices… in contrast to [Judith] Butler's more singular focus on the human body, the framework of agential realism does not limit its reassessment of the matter of bodies to the realm of the human. In fact, it calls for a critical examination of the practices by which the differential boundaries of the human and nonhuman are drawn, for these very same practices are always already implicated in particular materialisations"
Karen Barad is a theoretical physicist who applies concepts from physics to feminism & cultural studies. Follow link for a download of her article "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialisation of Reality" (1998):
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ps4449nzw92qi6t
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