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Beyond Experience

Della Pollock

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, pollock{at}email.unc.edu

In response to the essays by Brower, Adams, and Jones in this volume, this essay argues against the ocular-empiricism of eyewitness by which sight authenticates experience and experience authenticates the seeing-self. The logics that tie experiential fundamentalism to identity politics are inherently faulty and potentially regressive. They lock the "I" in a representational chain connecting that‘s what I saw; that‘s what happened; that‘s how things are; that‘s my/the story; that‘s who I am. Following Scott, the essay favors a critical/creative approach that immerses "experience" in political intervention and self-making.

Key Words: eyewitness • experience • testimony

This version was published on October 1, 2009

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Vol. 9, No. 5, 636-646 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1532708609338036
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