A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry.
A collection of 14 essays by international scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines of Philosophy, Literature and Theatre and Performance Studies, addressing the nature of the relationship between philosophy and performance.
Draws on Kira O'Reilly's on-going bio-art performance experimentations and Matthew Herbert's experimental music performance One Pig to rethink the theoretical and performative engagement with animals and the vitality of life in its broadest sense.