The universe is agential intra-activity in its becoming Matter is always already an ongoing historicity it is substance in its intra-active becoming-not a thing but a doing, a congealing of agency. The world is an open process of mattering through which mattering itself acquires meaning and form through the realization of different agential possibilities. Mattering is differentiating, and which differences come to matter, matter in the iterative production of different differences. Matter is agentive, not a fixed essence or property of things. Matter is produced and productive, generated and generative. Matter: it is neither fixed and given nor the mere end result of different processes. Posthumanism: it marks the practice of accounting for the boundary-making practices by which the “human” and its others are differentially delineated and defined it refuses the idea of a natural division between nature and culture. Agential intra-actions are specific causal material enactments that may or may not involve “humans.” Intra-actions instead of interactions: relata do not preexist but emerge through specific intra-actions. Reality: it is composed not of things-in-themselves or things-behind-phenomena but of things-in-phenomena.

Phenomena: the primary ontological unit as in the differential patters of mattering the ontological inseparability, or entanglement of intra-acting agencies they are not produced in a lab and engineered by humans but through complex agential intra-actions of multiple material-discursive practices or apparatuses of bodily production.

Meeting the universe halfway