... Drawing on the examples of quantum physics (Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle) and on Adrie Kusserow’s use of poetry to explore the liminal spaces of refugee lives, this interlude considers uncertainty as a constitutive and inescapable part of the practice of ethnography and as a potential...

...The Feminism of Uncertainty I look at utopias and their shadows and try to affirm the political life without any illusion that one can know the long future of any political act. Uncertainty always has an autobiography attached. As a young child, I had dyslexia and couldn’t immediately read...

... I look at utopias and their shadows and try to affirm the political life without any illusion that one can know the long future of any political act. Uncertainty always has an autobiography attached. As a young child, I had dyslexia and couldn’t immediately read or write. Perversely, these two...

... This piece is about the inevitable uncertainty in the experience of writing. It analyzes different styles and describes the difficulty of being clear without cancelling out complexity or hiding the holes to be found in all arguments. The author describes her own writing history as a dyslexic...