Sensibility Audit
Updated 2026-08-22
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
The sensibility audit, inspired by Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation, is a self-check in three questions: what did I actually feel toward this work, where did that feeling come from, and has my sensibility been preempted by theory. The core proposition is that over-interpretation displaces direct experience, so the first response deserves recording before commentary arrives. The key qualification is that the audit does not abolish interpretation; it restores the hierarchy in which theory assists perception rather than replacing it.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- First response capture: record your immediate feeling before you read any commentary. - Source tracing: ask whether the feeling came from your own memory or from a label you were handed. - Theory demotion: put interpretation back in the role of an aid and note when it is answering for you.
Anchor fast decisions
A ready-made theory supplies an interpretation at no cost, and the supplied reading arrives faster than the experience itself can be attended to, so it preempts the response and is mistaken for it. Recording the first response before the commentary suspends that preemption, and what is left is the direct experience, which is the only material interpretation has to work on.
MINIMUM ACTION
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