Intra-dependency

The use of “intra” gestures, in this case, towards an ontological turn within western philosophy that forwards a worldview in which entities (whether material, or immaterial, plant or mineral) are not pre-determinately fixed as clearly bounded, individual “things”, but rather emerge as phenomena in a constant state of becoming and co-shaping each other while doing so. Within such a worldview, the world is not separable as “inter” dependent parts to a whole, but rather as “intra” dependent relationships that are themselves generative of “wholeness”. Such wholeness no longer separates subjects (meaning-makers) from objects (observable phenomena), but considers them as co-constitutive. Karen Barad asserts that: ‘Matter and meaning are not separate elements. They are inextricably fused together, and no event, no matter how energetic, can tear them asunder’…