ABSTRACT
This chapter explores intimate theory and embodied dissent. It is an attempt to bring together the author’s experience of dissent with ways of knowing that step beyond traditional parameters for theory. As much it explores words and their power, it recognises that words are never enough. You can tell the worth of a person by what he or she does, not what he or she says. Similarly, you can tell the worth of a concept by both its effects in the world and its effects on the inner-scapes of consciousness. Yet beyond this, there is an embodied horizon of possibility which calls us to act, do, be and relate directly with this world. This is the space of intimate theory where a dance, a song, a practice – either mundane or esoteric – can offer intimate critical possibilities for dissent and for initiating sublime movements for personal or social transformation.
