Definition of Perspectival

What is Perspectival?

Perspectival, or Experience as Perspectival, is an experience that is always situated – one cannot have a view “from nowhere”. All knowing is ultimately grounded in enactive (e.g. worldmaking) experience. And all experience is transjective – arising out of a skilled way of doing things in a transformed and transformative environment. For living beings, our reality is actively perspectival, not because each organism has a unique subjective experience, but because each organism is shifting into distinct assemblages that give rise to specific fields of potentialities that they can come to actualize. Perspectival experience stabilizes into a field of similar potentialities (a worlding) via the coordination of assemblages as an apparatus/dispositif.

See also: Affordances, Dispositif, Transjective, Ontology, Ontological Politics