We found a body: The intrabody of human, technology, narrative and environment as postqualitative inquiry

Australian Journal of Environmental Education ◽

10.1017/aee.2021.32 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Cassandra Tytler

Keyword(s):

Call To Action ◽

Space And Time ◽

Ways Of Being

Abstract This paper explores the potential for a mode of postqualitative inquiry as generative knowledge-affect by looking towards the practice-led in-progress intermedial project, We Found A Body. The project functions as a form of urban play in a way that decentres and reconstructs participants so that their bodies, their technology and the environment they ‘play’ in become intertwined. I use a posthumanist queer reading of performativity (Barad, 2003, 2011) coupled with an affect-focused study of world-making (Harris & Jones, 2019) alongside a politics of affect to analyse how We Found a Body, in its potential for intraaction of human, technology, narrative and environment, can reconfigure and intertwine bodies and matter in a dynamic and embodied way. I argue that creative intermedial practice can produce counternarratives where new modes of belonging within space and time exist, and where extended ways of being human are at play (Myers, 2020). This is a space where the artwork acts as a performative call to action where iterative materialisation creates an intrabody of the human and more-than-human and opens up future methods within postqualitative inquiry.

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Nature’s Queer Performativity*

Kvinder Køn & Forskning ◽

10.7146/kkf.v0i1-2.28067 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Karen Barad

Keyword(s):

Space And Time ◽

Human Exceptionalism ◽

Karen Barad ◽

Per Se ◽

Ways Of Being

In this article, Karen Barad entertains the possibility of the queerness of one of the most pervasive of all critters – atoms. These “ultraqueer” critters with their quantum quotidian qualities queer queerness itself in their radically deconstructive ways of being. Given that queer is a radical questioning of identity and binaries, including the nature/culture binary, this article aims to show that all sorts of seeming impossibilities are indeed possible, including the queerness of causality, matter, space, and time. What if queerness were understood to reside not in the breech of nature/culture, per se, but in the very nature of spacetimemattering, Barad asks. This article also considers questions of ethics and justice, and in particular, examines the ways in which moralism insists on having its way with the nature/culture divide. Barad argues that moralism, feeds off of human exceptionalism, and, in particular, human superiority and causes injury to humans and nonhumans alike, is a genetic carrier of genocidal hatred, and undermines ecologies of diversity necessary for flourishing.

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Coda

Black Lives and Spatial Matters ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501750465.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 211-214

Author(s):

Jodi Rios

Keyword(s):

Cultural Politics ◽

Liberal State ◽

Municipal Governance ◽

Social Death ◽

Protest Movement ◽

Space And Time ◽

Politics Of Race ◽

Relations Of Power ◽

Ways Of Being

This coda explains how a cultural politics of race and space relies on the logics of antiblackness as described throughout the previous chapters. As a fundamental technique of biopower, power over life, this politics deploys culture to produce and police disposable yet profitable bodies in North St. Louis County. But to theorize the experience of living under the “racial state of municipal governance” as solely a form of social death denies how relations of power are dependent upon possibilities for resistance. While most people outside the protest family consider the Ferguson Protest Movement to be over, those whose lives were transformed across space and time are committed to fight in registers that go beyond those recognized by the liberal state. This resistance and the capacity to imagine other worlds crop up across the globe and are connected through a radical relationality that not only multiplies “the reals” but maps that which is currently unimaginable. Together these outcroppings create archipelagoes of life that sit within the sea of unsustainable ways of being and doing.

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Introduction

Experience and Possibility ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198869764.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Joseph Mendola

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Proper Understanding ◽

Modal Structure ◽

Ordinary Concrete ◽

Space And Time ◽

Concrete Properties ◽

Concrete Objects ◽

Strict Identity ◽

Ways Of Being

This is an introductory chapter. It sketches the project of the book, which is to understand the ontology of a central class of particulars, and of their most basic and central properties and relations. This central class encompasses the commonsense entities that our experience seems naïvely to reveal. First of all, there are ordinary visible objects like balls and cars. The book investigates the kind of particularity they present in experience. Second, there are locations in space and time that such ordinary things occupy, and which have a somewhat different sort of particularity. Third, there are the material bits that make up the balls and cars. The proper understanding of both the particularity and the concrete properties and relations of ordinary concrete objects like these demands certain metaphysical novelties. It requires a return to the ancient conception that there is a difference between different ways of being, specifically between the existence of actual tables and chairs with their evident colors and shapes on one hand, and what might be called “the subsistence” of certain merely possible beings on the other. But it also requires the recognition of various sorts of unity relations less than strict identity, which for instance relate determinable and relevantly determinate properties. All these novelties involve distinctive forms of modal structure.

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Space, Time and the Constitution of Subjectivity: Comparing Elias and Foucault

Foucault Studies ◽

10.22439/fs.v0i8.2938 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 8 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Paddy Dolan

Keyword(s):

Discursive Practices ◽

Temporal Dimension ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

Space And Time ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Theories Of Subjectivity ◽

Ways Of Being ◽

Over Time

The work of Foucault and Elias has been compared before in the social sciences and humanities, but here I argue that the main distinction between their approaches to the construction of subjectivity is the relative importance of space and time in their accounts. This is not just a matter of the “history of ideas,” as providing for the temporal dimension more fully in theories of subjectivity and the habitus allows for a greater understanding of how ways of being, acting and feeling in different spaces are related but largely unintended. Here I argue that discursive practices, governmental operations and technologies of the self (explanatory claims of both Foucault and the Foucauldian tradition) take shape as processes within the continuities of the figurational flow connecting people across space and time. Continuity should not be understood as stability or sameness over time, but as the contingent relations between successive social formations. As Elias argues, there is a structure or order to long-term social change, albeit unplanned, and this ultimately provides the broader social explanation for the historicity of the subject. Though discursive practices happen in particular spaces, we must recognise these spaces, and the practices therein, as socially constructed over time in response to largely unplanned moral and cultural developments.

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Middle Pasages

10.5406/illinois/9780252038020.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Carole Boyce Davies

Keyword(s):

African Diaspora ◽

Middle Passage ◽

Body Memory ◽

Space And Time ◽

The World ◽

New Locations ◽

Trade And Exchange ◽

Ways Of Being

This chapter explores the concept of the Middle Passage, which has attained iconic significance in African diaspora discourses. The concept refers to the transportation of numerous Africans across the Atlantic; difficult and pain-filled journeys across ocean space; dismemberment referring to the separation from their families and kin groups; the economic trade and exchange in goods in which Africans were the capital, commodities, or source of exchange and garnering of wealth for others; deterritorialization, the separation from one's own native geography or familiar landmarks, and the parallel disenfranchisement of Africans in new locations; the necessary constitution of new identities in passage and on and after arrival. However, the Middle Passage has also become a historical marker in space and time, for some an aesthetic, for many an evocative body memory in terms of confinement to limited spaces, but absolutely a break between different ways of being in the world.

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Diminishing Barriers to the Praxis Examination in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders ◽

10.1044/gics1.2.64 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 64-71

Author(s):

Luis F. Riquelme

Keyword(s):

Geographic Location ◽

The United States ◽

Success For All ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Barriers To Success ◽

Call To Action ◽

Language Pathology ◽

National Certification ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Passing Score

Abstract Passing the Praxis Examination in speech-language pathology or audiology can be a difficult task. A passing score is the entry to a list of requirements for national certification (CCC-SLP, CCC-A) and for state licensure in the United States. This article will provide current information on the examination and address barriers to success that have been identified over the years. A call to action may serve to refocus efforts on improving access to success for all test-takers regardless of race/ethnicity, ability, or geographic location.

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