Staying with the Trouble

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• Hannah Arendt and Virginia Woolf both understood the high stakes pf training the mind and imagination to go visiting, to venture off the beaten path to meet unexpected, non-natal kin, and to strike up conversations, to pose and respond to interesting questions, to propose to ther something unanticipated, to take up the unasked-for obligation of having met. This is what I have called cultivating response - ability isiting is not a heroic practice; making a fuss is not the Revolution thinking with each other is not Thought. (查看原文)

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• Despret's sort of politeness does the energetic work of holding open the possibility that surprises are in store, that something interesting is about to happen, but only if one cultivates the virtue of letting those one visits intra-actively shape what occurs. They are not who/what we expected to visit, and we are not who/what were anticipated either. Visiting is a subject-and object-making dance, and the choreographer is a trickster. Asking questions comes to mean both asking what another finds intriguing and also how learning to engage that changes everybody in unforeseeable ways. Good questions come only to a polite inquirer, especially a polite inquirer provoked by a singing blackbird. With good questions, even or especially mistakes and misunderstandings can become interesting. This i... (查看原文)

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