What kind of end could I give you?
Ahmed's Queer Phenomenologies
Ahmed suggests that the body's orientation and alignment with established pathways are influenced by the repetitive gestures of others. She argues that "we are in line when we face the direction that is already faced by others" (15). These interpersonal encounters have a profound impact on how our bodies express themselves. Moreover, the pathways we follow also have a shaping effect on our desires. According to Ahmed, orientation plays a significant role in determining "what bodies can do" (91) and the proximity that bodies naturally develop with one another. To put it another way, our bodies assume forms that both enable specific actions and restrict the potential for other forms of action (91). Therefore, adhering to the concept of 'being in line,' as Ahmed describes it, "enables bodies to extend into spaces that have already taken shape" (15).
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Claudia Garcia-Rojas, "(Un)Disciplined Futures: Women of Color Feminism as a Disruptive to White Affect Studies," Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2016.
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Andrey Kurenkov, "A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning," Skynet Today, 2020.
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Derek Collins, "Mapping the Entrails: The Practice of Greek Hepatoscopy," The American Journal of Philology 129, no. 3 (2008): 319–345, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27566714.
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Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 132.
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Joseph A. Marchal, "The Disgusting Apostle and a Queer Affect between Epistles and Audiences," in Reading with Feeling: Affect Theory and the Bible, edited by Fiona C. Black and Jennifer L. Koosed (Society of Biblical Literature, 2019), 113–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs8z0d.10.
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Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (London: Routledge, 2004), 85.
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Laboria Cuboniks (Collective), The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation, 2018.
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Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine (London, UK: British Film Institute, 1994).
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Alfred Gell, Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner (New York: Random House, 1967).
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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, "Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4, no. 3 (1998): 469-488.
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Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Duke University Press, 2006).
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Patricia MacCormack, Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020).
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"Mirror Box Therapy with David Butler," Neuro Orthopaedic Institute NOI, YouTube, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBA15Hu35M.
