Dec 5, 2018
It is a risk to read philosophy as a non-philosopher. When we don't have the resources to read certain texts, we risk getting things wrong by not returning them to the fullness of the intellectual histories from which they emerge. And yet, we read. The promise of interdisciplinary scholarship is that the failure to return texts to their histories will do something. Of course, not all failures are creative. If we don't take care with the texts we read, if we don't pay attention, then the failure to read them 'properly' won't do very much at all. Taking care involves work, and it is work that we must do if we are to create something other than another point on a line.
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, pg. 22-23