About

Navigating the mess — enactively.

This site is for investigating and exploring life and living together through the enactive approach to intersubjectivity.

What is it to live as linguistic bodies?

What is it to engage in participatory sense-making?

What is it to love and know?

What is it to move in, through, contra, with, between, threads of changing meanings? To participate in their weaving, to become, unbecome, and co-become?

What is it to truly listen? To see clearly?

In an engaging epistemology, known, knower, and their interactions and relations ongoingly change and transform as they relate with each other and the world, as they know each other.

Being, knowing, and doing are intertwined.

As knowers, we unavoidably have responsibility as we contribute to the becoming of the world. We transgress and co-constitute one another, ourselves, and the world as we grow, as we understand, as we research, as we treat patients or are patient, as we educate and become educated, as we organise and work, as we write and speak and listen and see and make. As we clash and struggle and fight, produce, exchange, and engage.

This site is dedicated to investigating this, in all its nuances and complexity.

The enactive approach, with its dynamic, processual, relational, experiential concepts and methods, helps to navigate this mess, the paradoxes, the conundrums, contradictions, ambiguities and uncertainties through its principled approach to what living is and what living together is. I feel it is time for me to enter into different kinds of dialoguing (moving through words, through thinking) about this, and this site is one forum for that.

This place may eventually have guest posts and I may eventually open it up for community and dialogue through comments, conversations and such (this will be further investigated and installed as the site develops).

The site title takes after Adam Curtis’ 2002 BBC documentary “The Century of the Self.” When Ezequiel Di Paolo and I saw it together in the early 2000s, I thought the next century — this one — should be the Century of Intersubjectivity. What this means, and what links there are with Curtis’s points is itself a theme to be worked out. It is one way of framing what the site is about and what it aims to do, along with the themes of exploring the enactive, linguistic bodies, participatory sense-making, loving and knowing ways of life and of living together.

—In the East Kootenays, British Columbia, on the traditional lands of the Ktunaxa Nation, on June 29, 2025.
Edited Sep 19th, 2025. —

PS: As I am an in(ter-)dependent researcher, I encourage you to check out the contributions/donation option (once I put it up).