I go for a walk up on the hill and sit among some trees – I think of their conversations, I imagine the vast connectivity in miles upon miles of mycorrhizal filaments beneath my feet, woven through the soil.

Sitting on some rocks for a while, the roughness beneath my skin, I try to hear its words, I try to feel the text in the tapestry of its surface but something tells me I’ll never have enough time.

Quantum entanglement means two particles are inextricably linked and replicate each other's every move across spacetime. They are of the same body. We operate in diffractive entanglements where relations emerge through intra-action. We cannot develop an understanding of the world through isolated agential cuts, instead things need to be viewed in their relationality.

We live along lines and in bundles, muddled in the meshwork.

‘When everything tangles with everything else, the result is what I call a meshwork. To describe the meshwork is to start from the premise that every living being is a line or, better, a bundle of lines.

Tim Ingold, Lines: 3

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‘I present a relational ontology that rejects the metaphysics of relata, of “words” and “things.” On an agential realist account, it is once again possible to acknowledge nature, the body, and materiality in the fullness of their becoming without resorting to the optics of transparency or opacity, the geometries of absolute exteriority or interiority, and the theoretization of the human as either pure cause or pure effect while at the same time remaining resolutely accountable for the role “we” play in the intertwined practices of knowing and becoming.'

Karen Barad, Posthumanist Performativity: 812