It begins with us: On why our embodied experiences matter in the dis/appearance of worlds

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Núñez Casal, Andrea. 2021. It begins with us: On why our embodied experiences matter in the dis/appearance of worlds. EASST Review, 40(1), [Article]

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“To ‘de-passion’ knowledge”, writes Vinciane Despret, “does not give us a more objective world, it just gives us a world ‘without us’”(2004, p. 131). In producing ‘knowledge-inpractice’ about our/the ‘body-in-action’ (Mol and Law, 2004, p. 51),“having fun, doing something we do well for the sheer pleasure of doing it” (Graeber, 2014) figures as a form of ‘re-attuning’ and ‘re-sensitising’ ourselves, to re-passion’ our bodies and knowledges. In this short piece, I would like to write about us, STS researchers. I would like to discuss our embodied “significance and agency in the emergence/occlusion of worlds. Usually concealed in the sphere of the ‘private’, ‘quotidian’ and ‘mundane’, I hope to persuade you that your embodied experiences, – always already situated within specific spatio-temporal frames –, matters –, first of all, to you/us, being then crucial for the relationships we establish with our colleagues, ‘‘epistemic partners’ (i.e. informants) and, ultimately, for our discipline(s).

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