UC Davis CST Colloquium: Worlding (Kathleen Stewart, UT Austin)

This talk is an experiment in creative non-fiction aimed at developing concepts of worlding not as a scale of thought and action, or a kind of significance, but as the ordinary compositionality of what feels like something to be in or with. Worlding, as I approach it here, is the activist occurrent of acts, rhythms, and atmospheres that lean into what happens from an angle or a matter of concern but not matter-of-factly. The subject, already multiplied and amplified by its own strange and continuous efforts to emerge reverbs with the disturbances of a form realized, an attunement miss-firing, the pooling up of thought-matter-feelings in a situation.