‘It is not the sensible being but the being of the sensible. It is not the given but that by which the given is given.’ (Deleuze, 1995, Difference and Repetition, p 139-140). What does this entail for ethnography? Shortly after I returned from fieldwork I was often asked ‘Did you get enough material?’ ‘Did you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Deleuze’
screening as intensive research
This is something I have written in trying to understand a paper that I have almost completed. It is about thinking about the paper as a screening. More on screening and mapping later … ‘I said above that this paper is doing a screening. In other words, it is a performative piece whose effect is [...]
approaches after reflecting on ‘cars’ in field notes
One option would be to treat cars as objects, but not as metric ones but differentials. Cars as actualisations of intensities. This keeps cars the object. This may be similar to Mol’s moves of: this is my object, what happens if it is multiple? What happens if we following practices and emergence rather than objects [...]
Problematic Events
Each of these post appears to open with an attack – an attack on metric objects, an attack on positivism, an attack on an old image of thought and now here, an attack on an old problem-solution relation, and its replacement with a new for of problem-solution relation. But first let‘s sketch out the new [...]
