ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about outrage and refusal as a generative ontological formation, one enacted through truth-telling and truth-making. It shows that virtuous inquiry as an ethical imperative to create the conditions necessary for material change. New ontological possibilities manifest at the limits of epistemological practice; the threshold of knowing into becoming, encountered through virtuous inquiry. As a form of truth-telling, virtuous inquiry comes to articulate truths of the moment, an immanent critique that generates a future unknown. In similar fashion, Anders Kristensen situates truth as a type of critique: “the effort of creating new forms of problems”—a creative practice that challenges the present terrain to make way for alternative relations or contexts. In the contemporary moment cynical parrhesia manifest as a type of virtuous inquiry, making possible the circumstances necessary for relational truth-telling to occur, bringing together important elements of citizenship, ethical duty, outrage, and vulnerable risk.
