In chapter two, I look at art as a source of communication in the immediate space it inhabits. I argue that this communication transcends the rational mind as a precognitive moment of enchantment. This chapter considers how encounters with cultural products allow us to re-envision and disrupt norms by circumventing the conscious rational mind. This process, as enchantment, leverages a primal pull toward the sensual and in doing so, accesses that part of us that is open to alterity. It is through enchantment that a form of aporetic space is forged where knowing and not knowing create Dionysian moments of potential. Art’s ‘soft power’ sees it reach the audience through the preconscious in ways that other modes may struggle. I further explore the Kabul context to illustrate that beyond, and perhaps because of, the affective capture of art and its abduction of the senses, it can work to suture the ruptures and discontinuities caused by war. In essence, this chapter explores the power of affect to rupture modernity’s enthralment with reason and advocates for art’s agency.