This concept comes Karen Barad’s interpretation of interaction, which combines different species, processes, and different disciplinary agencies. Intra-action is the mutual constitution of entangled agencies, that, in contrast to ‘interaction’ – which assumes the existence of separate individual agencies – recognises that distinct agencies do not precede, but rather emerge through their intra-action.

Intra-action also means that the agencies we perceive as distinct and belonging to specific things or beings are distinct only in a relational rather than absolute sense as the individuality of things and beings is ‘carved out’ of indeterminacy.