ABSTRACT
‘Sensual abandon’ is a phrase of Enlightenment subjectivity, implying that the senses (except maybe vision, and possibly hearing) dull the powers of the intellect. It implies that Orientalist desire for the sense experience of other cultures is in part a desire to stop thinking, as though sensory knowledge is radically opposed to intellectual knowledge…. [However] stirring up the hierarchy of the senses is not a chance to play dumb; in fact it's quite exhausting.
