intimacy: the practice of *seeing* interdependently when we are intimate, what do we *see*? what is *seeing*? ![[see or represent.jpg]] representationalism * believes in the gap according to Karen Barad: * seeing doesn't create a gap * a gap is dualistic thinking (the eye sees ≠ the mind thinks; body ≠ mind) * seeing isn't about "intervening from outside", but **intra-acting from within** * scientists used to believe "seeing" if they can intervene with the phenomenon repeatedly * seeing is the "**entangled material practice of knowing and becoming**" * a non-representationalist form of realism * doesn't believe in pre-existing things nor words * but emerge through intra-action * seeing *may* come more accurately from touching * STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope): seeing through touching / "feeling"