A short essay investigating how uncertainty is navigated in academic environments, and whether the compulsion to produced disembodied, all-knowing, "airtight" perspectives impedes our understanding of other knowledge traditions outside the academy. At the height of the world’s increasingly conscious interactions and intersections between different peoples, cultures and perspectives, academia is in the process of legitimizing and integrating other ways of knowing into its canon, to varying degrees of success. But with this essay, I am asking if there is an inherent contradiction in studying embodied forms of knowledge within an academy that has historically been designed to produce the certainty of a disembodied “view from nowhere.” Is the form in which academic knowledge is produced, consumed and performed ill-equipped to meaningfully integrate other knowledge systems? And could creative form, then, serve as a doorway into the academy for other ways of knowing?
