Gale Madness as Methodology

Bringing Concepts to Life in Contemporary Theorising and Inquiry
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-65928-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Madness as Methodology begins with the following quotation from Deleuze and Guattari, ‘Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough …’ This quotation firmly expresses thi book’s intention to provide readers with radical and innovative approaches to methodology and research in the arts, humanities and education practices. It conceptualises madness, not as a condition of an individual or particular being, rather as a process that does things differently in terms of creativity and world making.

Through a posthuman theorising as practice, the book emphasises forms of becoming and differentiation that sees all bodies, human and nonhuman, as acting in constant, fluid, relational play. The book offers a means of breaking through and challenging the constraints and limitations of Positivist approaches to established research practice. Therefore, experimentation, concept making as event and a going off the rails are offered as necessary means of inquiry into worlds that are considered to be always not yet known.

Rather than using a linear chapter structure, the book is constructed around Deleuze and Guattari’s use of an assemblage of plateaus, providing the reader with a freedom of movement via multiple entry and exit points to the text. These plateaus are processually interconnected providing a focal emphasis upon topics apposite to this madness as methodology. Therefore, as well as offering a challenge to the constraining rigours of conventional research practices, these plateaus engage with topics to do with posthuman thinking, relationality, affect theory, collaboration, subjectivity, friendship, performance and the use of writing as a method of inquiry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gale, Ken

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

(Not a) Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction? On Arrival from Elsewhere

Some Stories of Emergence: Routines, Surprises And Epiphanies

Bringing Madness to Life

Conceptualising Madness as Process?

Conceptualising Madness as Affect?

Madness as A Collaborative Practice

Friendship, Madness and The Posthuman

Writing Minor Literature: Working with Flows, Intensities and The Welcome of The Unknown

Madness as Methodology as Performance

Considering (Non) Data as Event: Employing Interference as Methodology

What Can This Madness as Methodology Do?

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ken Gale works in the Institute of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University. His main philosophical and academic interests are to do with bringing the use of posthuman, process based forms of concept making as event to creative, experimental practices of pedagogy and research in education.