Flaws and leaks

Dowsing, formerly called dowsing, is a mode of knowledge and attention paid to the water element (bodies, lands, winds). Its object is essentially elementary because we absolutely need water – it connects us to the world and unites us with each other. So dowsing strives to find some, mainly under our feet, by means of a wand or hands outstretched in an inverted prayer towards the powers underground. Seen through our positivist values, dowsing seems elusive, unverifiable and therefore becomes unfrequentable. Chloe Pretesacque, using historical anthropology and epistemologies queer and feminist, to fiction and poetry, questions our eager minds of certainty. It is by summoning the sensual and the ritual that it introduces a erotic relationship to the subject, transforming it into a source of emancipation radical. New expanded edition of a fiction.