ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how experiences in which the world suddenly becomes utterly unfamiliar might provoke us into interrogating the normative regimes of the sensible within which we habitually live. Such experiences help to decenter any claim that the senses provide unmediated access to reality and reveal their situated partiality. The chapter first considers those moments when we are immersed in settings in which unfamiliar sounds, sights, and smells assail us. Second, the discussion moves to explore how unfamiliar sensory experiences are temporarily sought through contemporary leisure practices. Third, the progressive political potentialities of undermining our unreflexively and habitually apprehended everyday worlds through the ways in which light, color, and dark are manipulated in a range of creative interventions.
