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Witnessing Space: ‘Knowledge without Contemplation’

Dewsbury, John-David·2003·Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
DOI 10.1068/a3582
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This paper is about the importance of witnessing and how such an act, or call, makes place or our place in the world. Pushing forward the agenda of nonrepresentational theory, this is about attending to differences—those imperceptible, sometimes minor, and yet gathering, differences that script the world in academically less familiar but in no less real ways. I am thinking here about the folded mix of our emotions, desires, and intuitions within the aura of places, the communication of things and spaces, and the spirit of events. Such folds leave traces of presence that map out a world that we come to know without thinking. Throughout, I argue the political importance of our current debates concerning a performative appreciation of society's unfolding. In the first part of the paper I sketch out the academic territory that makes witnessing space potentially unfamiliar by problematizing the representational setup and the interpretation of empiricism that facilities knowledge production. In the second part I present an overview of the operation of Gilles Deleuze's thinking as a possible apprecenticeship in becoming able to perceive, and hence better able to express, the folded mix of the witnessed and witnessing world. In the third part of the paper I investigate the philosophical and ethical mechanics of the act of witnessing itself, translating the arguments found here to question the laws regulating the act of representation. Throughout, as an exemplary witness to that which I am trying to present, the paper is haunted by Olga Tokarczuk's novella The Hotel Capital.

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Authors
Dewsbury, J.-D.
Venue
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2003-11
Volume
35
Issue
11
Pages
1907-1932
ISSN
  • 0308-518X (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-3409
DOI
10.1068/a3582
OpenAlex
W2008393221
Cited by
301
References
29
FWCI
43.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
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