Encounters in Psychic Everywheres (Meditations on Indeterminacy and Our Grounds of Dispersion)

I use “psychic everywheres” to articulate the explosion of our selves and entanglements in the modern era: we are hyperconnected, yet our capacities for Being (with) are limited by our terms of recognition. I understand this as a crisis of mobility—one that confuses our sensibilities towards the trauma of transition, thus confusing our experience of the world. In my writing, I theoretically fashion my diasporic perspective alongside Asian/diasporic thinkers, centrally Anne Cheng’s Ornamentalism, and arrive at a theory-method of indeterminacy grounded in Asian Americanisms. An accompanying installation/communal performance mirrors this collaborative process of confusion, arriving at the feeling of indeterminacy. Grief, of the pains of dislocation, enables this project’s circular self-mapping of a multiplicitous and multidimensional Being we encounter in our brutal intimacies. In place of concrete answers, I demonstrate perplexity as process, in hopes of disorienting us into new terms of Relation.