DISQUALIFIED KNOWLEDGES

DISQUALIFIED KNOWLEDGES

This branch examines forms of knowledge historically marginalised because they were associated with:

• the feminine;
• irrationality;
• emotion;
• bodily experience;
• intuition;
• ecstasy;
• spirituality;
• dreams;
• altered states;
• ritual;
• the invisible;
• non-rational perception.

QUESTIONS FOR CPPM

When was bodily knowledge more important than intellectual explanation?

When did intuition precede understanding?

When did I initially distrust an experience because I could not rationalise it?

When was affect, sensation, dream, trance, image or imagination treated as knowledge?

When did a workshop challenge the distinction between rational and embodied knowledge?

When did institutional or pedagogical authority determine which forms of knowledge were legitimate?

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

Connect only where supported to:

• Ephia Gburek;
• Henry Corbin / Mundus Imaginalis;
• Joseph Beuys;
• Julia Kristeva;
• Deleuze / Bacon;
• somatic practices;
• dream states;
• non-human embodiment;
• ritual practices;
• Weekly Questions concerning presence, spirituality or embodiment.

SAFEGUARD

Do not force a connection. The presence of an image, sensation or unusual state does not automatically make it mystical knowledge.