Embodying Theory

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author(s)/editor(s)
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• List of Figures
• IMAGINATION
• Introduction: Locating the Imaginary Horizon
• I. Track 0. Press Play
• I. Track 1. Subterranean Subjects against Alienation and Home Invasion
• I. Track 2. Face First
• I. Track 3. On Caveats and Interludes
• I. Track 4. I am Not a (Wo)Man, I am Dynamite: Distinctions between Ethics and Morals
• I. Track 5. An Ethical-Political Vision for Activist Aesthetics, Research, Love and Survival
• I. Track 6. Hidden Track: On Introducing Joy Early and Often
• Notes
• KNOWLEDGE
• Chapter 1. Mapping Rhizomatic Lines: Engendering Promiscuous Epistemologies
• 1. Track 0. Ready Yourself
• 1. Track 1. Nomad Science: On Theoretical Lexicography and Punkademic Etymologies
• 1. Track 2. On Theory vs. Theoretical Framework: Epistemology and Post-Structuralisms
• 1. Track 3. Rhizomatic Understandings of Morphology and Making Maps of Transgression
• 1. Track 4. On a Conceptual Orchestration: Vectors of Iterative Fields of Meaning
• 1. Track 5. On the Disruptive Power of Deterritorializing Space
• Notes
• SUBJECTIVITY
• Chapter 2. Tactical Subjects: Ethical Pleasure in Resistance
• 2. Track 0. Begin Where You Are
• 2. Track 1. Toward Ethical Audacity: Aesthetic Bodies Made Light
• 2. Track 2. Body Power Politics: Toward Marx and Material Economies of Exchange
• 2. Track 3. Performing Principled Pleasures
• 2. Track 4. Derrida’s Nietzschean Affirmation
• Notes
• EMBODIMENT
• Chapter 3. Embodied Politics and Strategic Aesthetics
• 3. Track 0. You and Yours
• 3. Track 1: Understanding an Intersectional Queer Theory of Ethical Action
• 3. Track 2. On the Value of Planting Seeds and Guerilla Gardening
• 3. Track 3. How To: Anti-Oppressive Implications
• 3. Track 4. Re-Centering Double Articulation: Approaching Humans, Rights, Activisms
• 3. Track 5. Getting Inside the Outsider: Credentials and Queerness in the Academy
• Notes
• ACTION
• Chapter 4. Collective Action: Make Theory Walk
• 4. Track 0. On Future Tracks
• 4. Track 1. Designing Ethical-Political Methods for Documenting Liberatory Futures
• 4. Track 2. On a Vision for Praxis: Rationale for Localized Action
• 4. Track 3. Participatory Action Research: Democratic Form and Content
• 4. Track 4. Critical Auto/Ethnography: Subjectivity, Ownership and Articulation of Action
• 4. Track 5. Polyvocal Mixed Media Portrait: Visioning Aesthetic Fragments
• 4. Track 6. On Rhizoanalysis: A Description and Procedure for Post-structural Reportage
• 4. Hidden Track. On Proof: Unreliable Narratives and Catalytic Convergences
• 4. Track 7. On Inspirational Roots for Building Momentum Spun Out of Ethical Vectors
• 4. Track 8. On Confessional Subjectivity: Be Critically Complicit in History and Futurity
• 4. Track 9. Ethical Lines of Flight: Assessing Available Tools and the Impetus to Act
• 4. Track 10. On Drawing Conceptual Maps for an Anti-oppressive Futurist Agenda
• 4. Bonus Track. (Re)Construct Deconstruction Toward Ethics: Eternal Return at the End
• Notes
• Works Cited

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FIGURES

Figure I.1: Bend. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure I.2: Rocket. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 1.1: Free. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 1.2: Pause. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 2.1: Neighbors. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 2.2: Emo Jawn. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 3.1: Potential. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 3.2: Lightning. Tamsen Wojtanowksi. 2018.

Figure 4.1: Support. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

Figure 4.2: YES. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018.

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INTRODUCTION

Locating the Imaginary Horizon

Figure I.1: Bend. Tamsen Wojtanowski. 2018. ← 1 | 2 →

I. Track 0. Press Play

How pale and cadaverous will today’s rationalists appear as the intense throng of Dionysian revelers post turn.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

This book is an experiment. As reader, your participation makes the experiment possible. Without you, the book is not read and ostensibly then there is no book since a book’s central purpose is the active function of transmission. You are invited to interact with the text. You are provided multiple entry points to do so. You are what makes all things possible. You are seen.