Chasing Charms as Concept

Abstract

This lived approach to inquiry is situated in transcendental empiricism through, what Deleuze called, a sensibility of creating and becoming; the inquiry also chases charms as concept. I have invented the concept charms to help re-orient thought through a relational journey at the threshold of apprehension when naming it a concept. Nearly a dozen letters addressed to a Critical Studies scholar grapple with and question charms as concept—oftentimes in connection with other philosophical concepts. The inquiry lends itself to an immanent ontology when reading with poststructural philosophy, writing with and listening to the Critical Studies scholar, walking with a psychoanalytic scholar, and revising with two manuscript reviewers. It also invites readers to consider what and who they are entangled with/in and how those relations might encourage lived inquiry through a sensibility of creating and becoming.