'Cancel Culture' is Another Name for How Stuck We Are: Humanism, Ethics and the Material Turn in Contemporary Politics

Practically speaking, this process is not about right and wrong, but rather about informing our choices and understanding where we are. With Leo Peppas we will experience how much of our presence is defined by the way we relate through our senses, including touch and kinaesthesia (movement awareness). We can thereby learn to differentiate when we diminish this quality or ‘sense relatedness’ and instead look out at the world or others as objects, fixed and separate from us. Haptic cognition, our ability to understand and sense of knowing that derives from our exchange with the natural world, is a relational cognition – something we can only know through relating and not by ourselves.