Enactment as opposed to knowledge
 

Enactment as opposed to knowledge
 
Mol ("Preface," vii) is not concerned with "the ways in which medicine knows its objects"
 
It is interested in the way "medicine attunes to, interacts with, and shapes its objects [...] the way medicine enacts the objects of its concern and treatment"
 
"Attending to enactment rather than knowledge"
 
"The move, then, is away from epistemology. Epistemology is concerned with reference: it asks whether representations of reality are accurate. But what becomes important if we attend to the way objects are enacted in practices is quite different"
 
32-3: "It is possible to say that in practices objects are enacted," and an ethnographer should notice "the techniques that make things visible, audible, tangible, knowable"

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #knowledge, #medicine, #philosophy

> created February 6, 2021 at 2:10:58 PM


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