I. Recognition & reflexivity: Editorial introduction to the Special Feature

The point is not to institute new forms of intelligibility that become the basis of selfrecognition. But neither is the point to celebrate unintelligibility as its own goal. The point, rather, is to move forward, awkwardly, with others, in a movement that demands both courage and critical practices, a form of relating to norms and to others that does not ‘‘settle’’ into a new regime. I take this to be a way of opening to new modes of sociality and freedom. (Butler & Athanasiou, 2013, p. 68)