There is a lot of “queering something” these days, although Queer Theory is certainly not yet part of the major scientific or philosophical discourse. I will argue that dizziness is not just another concept, which needs queering, but that dizziness is fundamentally linked to queerness.
The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the emphasis on the “pre-reflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception and the focus on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience.
The Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research organizes events online and at different locations for the exchange about current projects and initiatives. It wants to contribute to the further development of the discourses in the field of the Medical & Health Humanities, but focus in particular on the manifold connections between the Medical & Health Humanities and artistic research.
More than ever before, our world appears to us as an animistic world, as a reality in which basically everything – things, plants, machines – can be experienced as animate in some form or another and, accordingly, as alive.