Reading Response 4:
- Victoria Moreira
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min read
In Ahmed's writing, the reader can follow her thoughts from Husserl's second volume of Ideas " If we consider the characteristics way in which the Body presents itself and do the same for things, then we find the following situation: each Ego has its own domain of perceptual things and necessarily perceives the things in a certain orientation..." she believes that Orientations are about how we begin, how we proceed from "here". But what would be a starting point for one's orientation? Ahmed answers, "the starting point for orientation is the point from which the world unfolds: the ‘here’ of the body, and the ‘where’ of its dwelling. Given this, orientations are about the intimacy of bodies and their dwelling places." She begins to question her own answers as the reader continue to develop ideas and conclusions from it. She questions at what point does the world unfold, and uses Husserl first and second volume of Ideas to unfold the solution. Phenomenology, -- concerned with the study of phenomena arise from the experience of being in the world -- established by Edmund Husserl in the early 20th century, asks us to be aware of the "what" that is "around". The world we live in today has "certain shapes" in which we are very familiar with. For example, in Hurseel's study, his familiar world begins with the writing table. That writing table is in "the room", he turns around to the other part of this room, and becomes familiar with the place he is facing. We, as the reader, can conclude from Ahmed text a sense of being "directed towards some objects and not others involves a more general orientation towards the world".
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