Touching technologies, touching visions. The reclaiming of sensorial experience and the politics of speculative thinking

The sense of touch is being revalued in disparate places, from cultural theory to expanding markets of haptic technologies. In this paper I explore the potential of thinking with literal and figural meanings of touch. My standpoint inherits from discussions in feminist knowledge politics and constru...

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Published inCritical psychology (Lawrence & Wishart) Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 297 - 315
Main Author Puig de la Bellacasa, María
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.09.2009
Palgrave Macmillan
Subjects
Embodiment
Epistemology
Feminism
Ideology
Meaning
Original Article
Politics
Science
Science and technology
Senses
Social Sciences
Technology
Touch
feminism
touch
technology
knowledge politics
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Summary:The sense of touch is being revalued in disparate places, from cultural theory to expanding markets of haptic technologies. In this paper I explore the potential of thinking with literal and figural meanings of touch. My standpoint inherits from discussions in feminist knowledge politics and constructivist conceptions of science and technology that problematize epistemological distances – between objects and subjects; knowledge and the world; and science and politics. In this direction, touch expresses a sense of material embodied relationality that seemingly eschews abstractions and detachments that have been associated with knowledge-as-vision. Engaging speculatively with experience, knowledge and technology as touch, I explore the differences made by touching visions.
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ISSN:1755-6341
1755-635X
DOI:10.1057/sub.2009.17