From page IX of the Preface and Acknowledgements of Meeting the Universe Halfway:
“Memory does not reside in the folds of individual brains: rather, memory is the enfoldings of space-time-matter written into the universe, or better, the enfolded articulations of the universe in its mattering. Memory is not a record of a fixed past that can ever be fully or simply erased, written over, or recovered(that is, taken away or taken back into ones’ possession, as if it were a thing that can be owned). And remembering is not a replay of a string of moments, but an enlivening and reconfiguring of past and future that is larger than any individual. … The past is never finished. It cannot be wrapped up like a package, or a scrapbook, or an acknowledgement: we never leave it and it never leaves us behind. “
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway, Duke University Press, 2007.
