Text Representationalism happens to be an inevitable byproduct of the Cartesian way of thinking that is so deeply ingrained within Western culture A very clear division between the knower and the known the internal and the external the subject and the obj

Representationalism happens to be an inevitable byproduct of the Cartesian way of thinking that is so deeply ingrained within Western culture. A very clear division between the knower and the known; the internal and the external, the subject and the object. The knowing happens from a distance within the realms of this discourse. What we have failed to consider here is that we are inseparably interwoven with the reality that an absolute objectivity is impossible. “Representation”, in its most basic sense, refers to the taking-inwards of an external perception of a thing or the conceptual qualities of an idea, in order to believe in its existence in the world. A transcendental, performative alternative to this approach would be, as briefly mentioned above; that an a priori rational construct would not be possible as the knowing emerges from a “direct material engagement with the world”.