According to Saltzman (2005) “Decomposing is simultaneously a process of composing, creating something new out of the worn-out and left-over” (p.63). Methodological composing can become about revival and with-nessing of recreation and complexity. Scholars could think with mixing and assemblage-ing as key practices of the (de)composing process, altering the composters’ sense of time. The betweeness of old and new, decomposing and composing, and the becoming of something else also alter how scholars sense and reach towards something new. For example, for Manning (2007) touch functions as a force of reaching forward. Senses are relational experiences of moving bodies where multiple sensed forces come together in space-time. Sense is always an expression of potential. Thus sensory decomposing prompts scholars to reach forward, to express the potential of the revived, worn-out, and left-over.

REFERENCES

Manning, E. (2007). Politics of touch: sense, movement, sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press.

Saltzman, K., (2005) “Composting”, Ethnologia Europaea 35(1), p.63-68. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.980