Notes for And They Were Dancing

The composition presented below, And They Were Dancing, is one of five such compositions that were created over the past nine years. During this time I have been engaged in rethink-ing the question of the subject in terms of the ontological turn suggested by Deleuzian philosophy, speculative realism, and ob-ject-oriented ontologies, as well as feminist theories including object-oriented feminism.1 Gaining attention in the academy in the early years of the twenty-first century, the ontological turn has encouraged a rethinking of human-centered thought in or-der to take up the non-human, or the agencies and animacies of objects, things, and environments. It might be thought that the turn to the non-human turns away from the human subject, the human body, human consciousness, and cognition, which cannot but raise the question: who are the subjects of this turn of thought or who became engaged with it one way or another? To raise this question does not have to mean simply reducing thought to the personal — biography or autobiography. Rather, it may lead us to reflect on the personal catch of arising world sensibilities, the feeling of thought stirring in a psychic arrange-ment, urging us to follow a subjective intuition.