Editing Aesthetic Action (section)

=Aesthetic Action and the ESE=

Aesthetics as a concept that is associated with western arts philosophy, but understood here as the affective and sensuous, provides multiple ways to engage and and think with the principles of in-between space, as put forward by Willie Ermine<ref>Ermine, W. (2007). The ethical space of engagement. Indigenous Law Journal, 6(1), 193–203.</ref>.

The artistic qualities of aesthetic actions can provide tools outside of traditional western-scientific paradigms, to facilitate ways of viewing, conducting and presenting research outside of dualistic thinking: the hallmark of classic western philosophy. As such aesthetic action can actively deconstruct, challenge and decenter the dominance of western ways of knowing and establish other sites of ‘enunciation’ - rather than merely critiquing- and re-centering them in the process <ref>Bhabha, H. K. (2012). The location of culture. routledge.</ref><ref>Simpson, L. R. (2004). Anticolonial strategies for the recovery and maintenance of Indigenous knowledge. American Indian Quarterly, 373-384.</ref><ref>Bhambra, G. K. (2014). Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues. Postcolonial studies, 17(2), 115-121.</ref>

In its rejection of certainty, the in-between opens up. Irwin’s describes this in-between, and the conditions it provides, as a possibility for ‘becoming’<ref>Irwin, R. L. (2013). Becoming a/r/tography. Studies in Art Education, 54(3), 198-215.</ref>. Irwin discusses ‘becoming’ as something that is placed between two multiplicities, not by becoming the other, but by ‘becoming-other’<ref>ibid</ref>.

<div class="next_choice">Check out the '''"Vista"''' to understand prospectively what this "Becoming Other" might mean - even if you have a suspicion that such "becoming other" is something that will only truly retain meaning in practice.</div>



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<span class="pop-up vista link" data-page-title="Becoming Other Vista" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Vista">[[Becoming Other Vista|Vista: Becoming Other]]</span>