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What Counts as Seeing
“Every animal can only tap into a small fraction of reality’s fullness. Each is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. There is a wonderful word for this sensory bubble—Umwelt.”--Ed Yong, An Immense World
I argue for the importance of thinking about the affordances of all kinds of sensory signals and for a “social sense” that does not just emerge through listening and spoken language. In making this argument, I join with scholars of autistic sociality and communication and disability studies scholars who have labored to expand conceptions of
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I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
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the importance of attuning to a child or person and being open to different senses and modalities.