Sense, Orientation, and World Creation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16705456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Inston (0000-0003-3111-4652, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345-372 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qui Parle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10418385-10052386 |
| OpenAlex | W4311451423 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article stages a dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy’s postphenomenology and Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology to examine the conditions, ethos, and politics of world creation as well as the habits, obstacles, and inequalities that resist it. It argues that Nancy’s understanding of sense as the event of the mutual exposure of bodies reveals what exceeds dominant worldviews, how bodies extend the world beyond prevailing spatializations, but that it does not sufficiently examine what prevents us from sensing that event as a call to world creation. Conversely, Ahmed analyzes how the spatial orientation of bodies restricts exposure, causes uneven access to the world, and suppresses Nancean sense. Her account of disorientation illuminates how we could experience the world as ungrounded and susceptible to creation but struggles to explain what would enable the sharing of this event so that it does not reconfirm the dominant orientations of whiteness and heterosexuality. Reframing disorientation in terms of Nancy’s relational ontology and its spatial conception of justice rethinks the nonalignment of bodies and spaces as freeing the circulation of sense so that alternative worlds could appear. In this way, disorientation can be read as potentially opening the passage from injustice to justice, from orientation to creation
Aesthetics · Cognitive reframing · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethos · Injustice · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |