ABSTRACT
The Conclusion outlines the key contributions of the overall work in answering its central question: what does disgust do in the world? In particular, the Conclusion considers the ways in which the text exposes the work of disgust, especially in the ways that it expands accounts of repulsion and fascination without prioritizing one over the other and without dismissing fascination as an oddity. Second, this chapter outlines how this work has contributed to an understanding of disgust’s ethical demands, especially in imagining how these demands may be met in liveable and realistic ways. The chapter highlights that disgust encounters are a constitutive element of how we understand ourselves, others, and the world. In short, disgust is about meaning-making. Accordingly, this chapter argues that expanding the conceptual and tangible resources we have around disgust is relevant not only for how disgust can be experienced, but also for the ways in which we live our daily lives, especially among and with other living, feeling, thinking subjects in the world.
