Spatial experiments: art, geography, pedagogy

Jellis, Thomas

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“…Taking risks is equally about embracing failure as something affirmative and generative – an event that helps us to develop new techniques for thinking experimentally in “the movement from theory to the empirical and back again” (Gerlach & Jellis, , p. 143). We see this geographic appeal to experiment (see also Enigbokan & Patchett, ; Jellis, ; Jellis & Gerlach, ; Last, ) as intrinsic to the practice of post‐humanism and, while by no means the only philosopher to experience an “aversion to humanism” (Gutting, , p. 147), we follow a Deleuzian logic of experimentation as an alternative to the representational and humanistic logics of interpretation (Deleuze & Parnet, , p. 36). It is thus an experimentation that is open to what emerges in the field, without overcoding the process with preconceived expectations that are not predicated on the result.…”

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Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Williams

Patchett

Lapworth

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Post-humanist theories shaping contemporary geographic research have unsettled the privileged position of the "human" as a common reference to apprehend social life. This decentring of the human demands that we rethink our expectations of, and approaches to, methodological practice and the traditional distinctions made between the theoretical and the empirical. In this introduction and the following interventions, we explore how a material situatedness and attention to nonhuman agencies within post-humanist thought complement and extend existing methodological innovations within human geography. We do so with reference to a series of Masters workshopsa somewhat overlooked space of research-creationeach of which explored the implications of post-humanism on methodological practice. The introduction concludes with three key tenets that were followed in each of the individual workshops, and which set out an ethos for practising post-humanism more broadly. K E Y W O R D S experimentation, geographic method, Masters workshops, nonhuman intensities, post-humanist theory, theory/practice divide 1 | PRACTISING POST-HUMANISM: WHY NOW?Recently, there has been a push to explore more experimental orientations to the "doing" of research and to develop practices that problematise methodological assumptions pertaining to rigour, reliability, and representation within geography (Dowling et al., 2016(Dowling et al., , 2017(Dowling et al., , 2018Vannini, 2015;Whatmore, 2006). In this paper we contribute to these exciting debates by engaging with the way post-humanist theoretical innovations shaping contemporary human geography require us to rethink the empirical demands and methodological responsibilities of geographical research. In bringing the material and affective registers of social life to the fore, post-humanist theories have the potential to reconfigure our relation to research practices in ways that trouble the traditional distinction between the theoretical and the empirical. It is in this potential for capturing novel aspects of contemporary social and cultural life, in excess of human durations, that we situate our concern for the practice of post-humanism within human geography.Responding to the call to experiment methodologically, the turn to more-than-human geographies has done much to broaden the remit of contemporary research to include the agency of the nonhuman in shaping social life. As Bastian et al. (2016, p. 2) note, a key concern here is "to take nonhuman life, and the entanglements of human/nonhuman life seriously" in the production of geographical knowledge. This concern is precisely about the challenge of attending to diverse nonhuman agencies in ways that demand different approaches to the act of doing geographical research. In turning to the relationship between post-humanism and geographical research (Braun,

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Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Williams

Patchett

Lapworth

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…If we approach the geographic turn to experimental and creative practice (Last, 2012;Enigbokan and Patchett, 2012;Jellis, 2015) in terms of Bergson's creativity, we are not experimenting in lieu of justifications for our actions, but rather approaching research without predetermined rules and expectations. To be without the predetermined nature of research is precisely why the openness I have argued for is important, because it enables the development of ideas and practices which are not restricted according to limited frameworks of thought.…”

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“…As such, the phenomenological agentic subject 'discovering' and 'coming [] to know' remains and the humanist endeavour creeps back in (Hawkins, 2015, page 255). An approach to the process of creativity which is evident in and around the question of methodology, where there is a push towards creative research in the name of experiment itself (Jellis, 2015). A key part of this shift has been an increased engagement with artistic techniques of, for example, photography (Yusoff, 2007), video (Patchett, 2014;Simpson, 2011), curatorial work (Alfrey, Daniels and Postle, 2004), and sound art (Butler, 2006;Gallagher, 2015), as a form of geographic method in its own right.…”

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“…In the last decade cultural geographers have become increasingly engaged with creative research, both in terms of a direct engagement with artists and their work (Engelmann, 2015;Foster and Lorimer, 2007;Hawkins, 2010;Jellis, 2015;Lapworth, 2015), as well as through a turn to artistic techniques and skilled practices (Butler, 2006;Mann, 2015;Patchett, 2014;Yusoff, 2007). What this trend enables most powerfully is a mode of enquiry into the way artistic products and practices can help geographers to frame and think about the world differently -whether this difference be in terms of an alternative political critique (Yusoff, 2007), the endorsement of embodied practices in academia (Lorimer and Wylie, 2010), or through an awareness of non-human and material agencies (Lapworth, 2015).…”

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Creative processes: From interventions in art to intervallic experiments through Bergson

Williams

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…into experimentation (Jellis, 2015), cartography (Gerlach, 2014; and impractical philosophy (Gerlach and Jellis 2015a;2015b). This forum attempts to push and proffer a series of conceptual nodes, a collection of points of departure for engaging in the micro and the minor.…”

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Micropolitics and the minor

Jellis

Gerlach

2017

Environ Plan D

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms AbstractMicropolitical investments and minor theoretical energies are of growing concern to geographers, yet conceptual ambiguity has inhibited broader discussion and deployment of these terms; even if they are the pivots of what we understand as, or take to be, the 'political'. In an effort to reinvigorate a dialogue about these crucial but underplayed concepts, and in an effort to push a micropolitical ethos in and of itself, we introduce a forum composed of six short interventions by geographers engaged in matters of the minor and micropolitical. Following these interventions, and leaning on a landmark article published in this journal twenty-one years ago, Cindi Katz revisits and reflects upon a vibrant conceptual assemblage that perhaps matters more now than ever, not least in questions of hope, discipline, ethics, existence, and politics itself. Key wordsMicropolitics; minor theory; ethics; hope; discipline Twenty-one years ago this journal published 'Towards a Minor Theory' by Cindi Katz (1996). i Despite the scale of the conceptual challenge laid down by Katz, specifically in unpicking the 'mastery' at work in much of critical geography, the article garnered little attention, in citation at least. It was something of a slowburner, a sleeper-hit lurking in the annals of contemporary geography. Harnessing, therefore, what seems to be a recent growing interest in the micropolitical and the minor in geography and the social sciences, the aim of this forum -itself composed of minor interventions by several geographers -is to re-invigorate these enigmatic concepts. These interventions return to the intellectual forum that gave rise to such concerns, but in a time when these provocations matter still further. This highlighting begins with a moment of critique. Specifically, that questions concerning the what, why and where of micropolitics and minor theory are missing, even from scholarship in which they act as anchoring concepts, not least in our own research

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Spatial experiments: art, geography, pedagogy

Cited by 14 publications

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Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Creative processes: From interventions in art to intervallic experiments through Bergson

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