Disorientation

Disorientation is “vital” (157) to Ahmed, as it is often only through being disoriented – when we lose our direction, our sense of being at-home among familiar objects – “that we might learn what it means to be orientated in the first place” (6). However, Ahmed warns that disorientation does not necessarily spark progressive reactions, given that “[b]odies that experience disorientation can be defensive, as they reach out for support or as they search for a place to reground and reorientate their relation to the world” (158).Daggett, C. (2015). Drone Disorientations. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17(3), 361–379. doi:10.1080/14616742.2015.1075317