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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘method’
some difficulties of writing a methodological thesis
I am writing a paper on number as an intensive object. It has sprung from quite a surprising place. Six weeks or so ago I was one of the presenters at a fundraiser night in support of some weavers from Arnhem Land to run a workshop in my area – the Yarra Valley. It 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 [...]
two weeks, four concepts and the rest
The last four post I think are concepts or perhaps tools. They have come over the last two weeks. They are loose, coherent enough with each other but not too rigid. It is these four little texts, these four concepts, that I will take with me back into my field notes. Below are some reflections [...]
