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Refrains for More-Than-Human Intimacy: Mutual Inclusion With a Canine Difference

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CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 455-460

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/15327086211037759

Keywords

multispecies; Deleuze and Guattari; assemblage; refrain; walking

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The author speculates on an intimacy that embraces uncertainty and difference in human-animal relationships, using encounters with dogs to reflect on intimacy towards both humans and animals. By writing performatively, the author depicts encounters with their dog as unfolding experiences that explore the coexistence of certainty and uncertainty within kinship and intimacy.
In my article, I speculate on intimacy that embraces uncertainty, difference, and/in more-than-human relations. An intimacy that embraces uncertainty is what Massumi characterizes as indiscernable expression-that which may not be clearly perceived-through play and walking encounters with humans and dogs. That which differs from itself has preoccupied my relationship with my dog and provides an occasion to think with intimacy toward humans and animals. Writing performatively, I depict encounters with my dog and present them as unfolding experiences that enter into powerful refrains-Deleuze's and Guattari's concept of a vector in which certainty and uncertainty occupy the same space, in which the nameable and certainty coexist with the improvised and defamiliarized, and in which kin and intimacy are made through uncertain relations.

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