Unknowing and the Everyday Seth Rockman From the palm—sized bog turtles

From the palm—sized bog turtles of the United States to the great oceanic leatherbacks

to make getting to these natural wonders easy

Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life

and mixed and non-modal family forms)

many now lost to the sand or under the waters of the Nile

Unknowing and the Everyday Seth Rockman From the palm—sized bog turtlesIn Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to this process is ma'rifat, or "unknowing" the idea that, as it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine, humanity must operate from an engaged awareness that it knows nothing. Golestaneh shows that rather than considering ma'rifat an obstacle to intellectual engagement, Sufis embrace that there will always be