If we only "know" through science and rationality, we deny the "sensuous knowledge" of many other parts of our world (and our bodies), says Minna Salami

A great friend of the Alternative Global, writer and philosopher Minna Salami - who edited Indra Adnan’s The Politics of Waking Up book - comes to the world with an important new learning seminar, via the Advaya platform. It’s titled Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Course for Everyone (based on her book).

Above is an introductory interview, and below is the blurb, and a breakdown of entry points to the discussion:

Minna asserts boldly that the dominant knowledge paradigm—obssesed with quantification, rationalisation, reason and deduction—has led to the crises of separation, and is thus detrimental to our individual, collective, and environmental wellbeing. It is more important than ever to now explore new ways of being in the world.

In this webinar, Minna will introduce sensuous knowledge, a model of knowledge rooted in the dynamic landscape of black feminist thought. It is one that empowers, enlivens, and liberates, through embodied insight.

The key here is embodied insight: how does rooting ourselves in the present, in our bodies and in this world, liberate us? Minna takes us through the course topics and themes, and through this conversation explore why a collective inquiry into knowledge is so relevant now, and for each of us.

0:00 - Opening; 2:58 - Brains, minds, senses and "sensuous" knowledge; 10:29 - Defining reality, grappling with power, and embodied knowledge; 20:35 - Intellectual/embodied and the arbitrary chasm; 24:31 - Knowledge and wisdom; 26:05 - Black feminism and black feminist poetics; 33:29 - Finding ways into sensuousness; the relationality of sensuous knowledge; 41:07 - Exousiance: power and rivers; 49:52 - Q: Living a sensuous life in modern/urban environments?; 53:55 - Q: Pleasure and sensuous knowledge?; 57:17 - Closing

CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPT: https://advaya.co/read/2023/06/12/in-...

ABOUT THE ONLINE COURSE: Sensuous Knowledge is a five-week course with Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish feminist author and social critic Minna Salami. It is a Black Feminist Course for Everyone, a journey to discover ways to think about, feel into, and be in reality in feminist-empowered ways that are healing, elucidating, and ultimately liberating as f***!

You will learn and embody disruptive ways of thinking, scientific and poetic ways of knowing, key feminist ideas, emotional literacy, systems thinking, inquiry into crisis, awakening, connectedness, and more. Sessions will be playful, interweaving disciplines, temporalities and cultures.

Come discover a world that is present and alive. Find out more about the course breakdown, learning outcomes, and more on the website. The course runs from 31 July to 28 August, on Mondays, 6–8pm UK. Register at https://www.sensuous-knowledge.com/ with WEBINAR25 for 25% off General Admission tickets.