Abstract
It is hardly difficult to imagine writing about critical phenomenology and walking. One might pause over the method of critical phenomenology as a meta-odos, a thinking of the path. Or consider the steps critical phenomenology takes and the unique pitch of its gait as it traverses the borderlands between phenomenology and critical theory. One might query how these two have the capacity to walk so well side by side, so much so that they can become as one, barely distinguishable against an open sky. Such an inquiry would no doubt track how it is that phenomenology walks toward things, through things, into things, suspending the eye of the natural attitude and proceeding ever so carefully and yet bluntly in search of what springs toward it. But such an inquiry would also track how that very process is a scripted processual, notwithstanding all the suspensions upon which it steps. Who and what writes and rewrites the script of what appears, when, and how? What inscriptions define appearances in advance and diaeretically cut them clean from one another? And what are the unscripted forces still at work? Ferreting out the work of scripts and inscriptions, such an inquiry would pause over the hidden structures that constrict what might feel like a free flight of the mind, a bit of unfettered rambling in the fields of consciousness. Thinking critical phenomenology as walking, then, means tracking the two moving in tandem. Phenomenology pulls toward the horizon of experience, while critical theory veers toward structural analyses. Together, they tread a uniquely illuminating path.
Highlights
It is hardly difficult to imagine writing about critical phenomenology and walking
2 differs depending on the “we” who walks? and, how is walking itself a worlding? Why and how does walking have the power to change the social values and structures that impinge upon it, shaping pathways and lifeways as it goes? Embedded in this inquiry is a space for critical phenomenology’s ameliorative project, its capacity to transform the world it takes as its object
A critical phenomenology of walking opens up a pathway for thinking about walking differently, in more liberatory ways
Summary
It is hardly difficult to imagine writing about critical phenomenology and walking. One might pause over the method of critical phenomenology as a meta-odos, a thinking of the path. One might query how these two have the capacity to walk so well side by side, so much so that they can become as one, barely distinguishable against an open sky Such an inquiry would no doubt track how it is that phenomenology walks toward things, through things, into things, suspending the eye of the natural attitude and proceeding ever so carefully and yet bluntly in search of what springs toward it. Embedded in this inquiry is a space for critical phenomenology’s ameliorative project, its capacity to transform the world it takes as its object. In this sense, a critical phenomenology of walking opens up a pathway for thinking about walking differently, in more liberatory ways. Traversing the space of this inquiry, I aim to complexify my understanding of walking as a practice, and to deepen my appreciation of critical phenomenology as a method
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