ABSTRACT
How is knowledge embodied? (Press here.) How could it be other than embodied, considering there is always someone, somewhere, somewhen, who knows? Yet, in Western cultures we’ve become used to disembodied knowledge – the ‘god-trick’ of seeing everything from nowhere1. This way of thinking about knowledge has its charms (omniscience), yet I suspect that embodying knowledge can expose this confidence trick. Situating knowledge acts as a touchstone, a reminder, that knowledge is, and always has been, embodied, located, partial and perspectival2. Who is reading these words, when, where, why? Which fleshy lap is this book resting upon? And when you stand up, where will you take these thoughts? Situating and embodying knowledge is a way of acknowledging, and taking responsibility for, our standpoints and our lookout points (nowhere, now here); it can also supply some breathing space, some critical engagement with our own and each other’s assumptions3.
