ABSTRACT
The Fukushima disaster revealed the limitation of reason in making an accurate representation of a complex reality and giving a prediction. Our moral conscience also has a limited range while our technology could cause significant damage to the future generation. In place of conventional knowledge that brings stable order to reality, this chapter introduces the ontology of ‘becoming’, which views the world as a self-organising system, which changes its formation due to the interaction between its components and the surrounding environment. In this system, creating an objective representation of a tangible reality must be seen as temporary. More important is creating a better change in the system, with our own bodies. Post-Fukushima activism indicates such a ‘performative’ epistemology. It creates non-representational knowledge that belongs to art rather than science. It is weaved from encounters with the unknown and passed to other bodies in the form of affect. It allows us to value something invisible and incomprehensible. The chapter concludes that new political imaginary needs this knowledge in order to affirm all lives that are devalued under the current system.
