Sensation and Embodiment in Political Protests and Performances

Sociation is the elementary process in which the unity of society is constituted by the subject’s everyday sensuous praxis. As the subject is a historically sedimented lived body, the social forms of consciousness and embodiment produced during everyday social action reconstitute society as such. Therefore, in my discussion of Against Abandonment, I consider political protests and performances to be important moments of sociation and focus on them as generative of the capacities of sensibility and affectability for the sensuous subject, thus conditioning the subject’s access to experience, knowledge, and the validity of judgements.