Intimate Touches

Proximity and Distance in International Feminist Dialogues

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ID11896363
AuthorsSara Ahmed (0000-0001-5172-6790, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume19
Issue1
Pages19-46
Publication date1997-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOxford Literary Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/olr.1997.002
OpenAlexW2055385582
LanguageEN
Citations received15

To begin with this date is to install, at least temporarily, intimacy at the level of the individuated subject. Rather an odd beginning you may think. A date? What is so 'individuated' about a date? Dates are public, they announce the ordering of time as a series of (repeatable) events. Yet the public ordering of time makes sense in relation to the personal stories we create: 'On this date I... Do you remember when we... That is when you....' The relation between the public ordering of time and the (apparently) private re-ordering is determinate and unstable. The public ordering depends precisely on not 'belonging' to the individual subject (there must be a consensus on how we measure our lives — these 'rules' must pre-exist individuation), and yet only makes sense though being inhabited, that is, through being given animation as life

Epistemology · Individuation · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Gender Politics and Representation · Philosophy · Psychology

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