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“To think with an enlarged mentality means one trains one’s imagination to go visiting.” Hannah Arendt in Donna Haraway Staying with the Trouble, 2016, p126
“Interesting research is research conducted under conditions that make beings interesting” Vinciane Despret in Donna Haraway ‘Staying with the Trouble, 2016, p126
“Despret’s cultivation of politeness is a curious practice. She trains her whole being, not just her imagination, in Arendt’s words, “to go visiting”. Visiting is not an easy practice; it demands the ability to find others actively interesting, even or especially others most people already claim to know all too completely, to ask questions that ones interlocuters truly find interesting, to cultivate the wild virtue of curiousity, to retune ones ability to sense and respond and to do all this politely! What is this politeness? It sounds more than a little risky. Curiosity always leads its practitioners a bit too far off the path and that way lie stories.” Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway, P127
