Elements of a Culture of Touch

Why has philosophy, in particular phenomenology, so little considered what our sexuate belonging lets appear? Could it be because this appearing cannot be disclosed, at least in part? Or because this disclosure is the fact of nature itself and we do not perceive it because it is not dependent on our mastery? Because it is not the result of a production on our part although we contribute to it, but in a way which remains, at least partially, foreign to us. Indeed, what happens is not immediately and merely a from us and for us because a from and for the other has a share in our own unveiling—which corresponds to a phenomenology almost ignored by our tradition. Nevertheless, all that takes place, but in a manner which escapes an active and visible operation. If it was not the case, the disclosure might fix and freeze what nature itself discloses, beginning with the ones who we are.