Touching
There is a longing of touch, as a form of connection, embedded within this project. A yearning to feel it all. It is a reaching out. I keep finding new sentences and words to describe the same thing over and over because full contact is never grasped.
According to Karen Barad, a feminist scholar and leading expert in quantum field theory, when we touch, we do not actually touch anything at all. Studies in physics show that at an atomic level, the attraction of touch creates a force of repulsion, producing an electromagnetic sensation. Touch is just a feeling of self-transformation. The magnetism I experience is then really revulsion propelled by my existential fears. I don’t need to rub my hands over everything to feel this way. Eye contact is close enough.
Touching is a loss of borders.
There is a longing of touch, as a form of connection, embedded within this project. A yearning to feel it all. It is a reaching out. I keep finding new sentences and words to describe the same thing over and over because full contact is never grasped.
According to Karen Barad, a feminist scholar and leading expert in quantum field theory, when we touch, we do not actually touch anything at all. Studies in physics show that at an atomic level, the attraction of touch creates a force of repulsion, producing an electromagnetic sensation. Touch is just a feeling of self-transformation. The magnetism I experience is then really revulsion propelled by my existential fears. I don’t need to rub my hands over everything to feel this way. Eye contact is close enough.
Touching is a loss of borders.
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2007.