ZSDP

The inanimate-animate distinction is perhaps one of the most persistent dualisms in Western philosophy and its critiques; even some of the most hard-hitting critiques of the nature-culture dichotomy leave the animate-inanimate distinction in place. It takes a radical rethinking of agency to appreciate how lively even “dead matter” can be.

— Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway, p 419, footnote 27 (via steveshaviro)