Chapter 5 what tacking does
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Abstract
Chapter 5: what tacking does takes a slow, theoretical look at what happens when two strangers are tacking. It looks at tacking as a technique of relation that enables us to respond to each other as strangers. Here I turn to the work of Canadian scholars Brian Massumi and Erin Manning and Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas to understand tacking as a technique of relation that thinks-with and makes-with response-ability. I deepen this by moving alongside French-Israeli artist and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger’s concepts of partial subjectivity and wit(h)nessing, and by learning from African American philosopher and race scholar George Yancy’s suggestion that we tarry with touch. In the end I look to Argentinian feminist and scholar María Lugones to better understand how the element of play in tacking can also function as a tactic.