Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy

Kaiser, Birgit Mara

doi:10.1080/13534645.2014.927634

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“…Retracking, the form, format and creative expression that this paper takes, the insistence on thinking thought and expressing concepts differently, is an acknowledgement of the intra-cultural contexts of Arrernte Country, an ethical commitment to express words and worlds differently (Kaiser, 2014;Wilson, 2008). This commitment is to "become what is needed rather than what is sought" (Simpson, 2021, p. 275).…”

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Undoing Theory: Walking of Arrernte Country – Co-creating Knowledge and Meaning in Central Australia

Cowan¹

2022

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Can educators and researchers rethink what theory does in public education so as not to repeat colonial theories and policies predicated on mis/conceptions of “terra nullius” and “terra incognita”? My initial concern as a teacher and administrator working in Northern Territory for over two decades, was the question: “What theories underpin public education policy directives and implementation plans?” Recently my focus has shifted to include what theory is and what it is doing in shaping whose lives (human and non-human) matter. The shift occurred because many theories appeared to perpetuate “more of the same” outcomes, specifically for Indigenous students and their communities. The shifts from what theory is to what theory is doing in the world occur through the daily rhythms – as a precedent of Arrernte practices – of walking Country. Through quotidian acts of walking, I begin to understand that theory is the inseparability of being, doing and thinking, what Barad’s agential realism calls “ethico-onto-epistem-ology”. To show how walking of country is doing theory, I diffractively read several texts (including the non-English and poetic). This gives a sense of what theory is doing in and of the specific matters it inhabits: Arrernte Country, colonisation, education policy directives, walking and creative expression. Theory is taken up through the ethics of those lives rendered un/thinkable, in/visible in public education in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). A diffractive approach in this context opens theory up, to express thinking differently with the commitment to unsettle education policy as a continued reflection of ongoing colonisation.

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Undoing Theory: Walking of Arrernte Country – Co-creating Knowledge and Meaning in Central Australia

Cowan¹

2022

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“…Some scholars use Barad’s theories without explicating its essential components such as instruments, apparatuses, photons, or electrons in their scheme. The use of agential realism to examine phenomena where no apparatus or quanta are present, as in certain readings of world literature (e.g., Kaiser 2014), 2 is an application that leaves important actants in the calculation absent. It is a fact that Barad designed agential realism to be useful for interpreting phenomena less material than crashing drones and endangered species.…”

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“… 2. Kaiser (2014) is but one among numerous examples of Barad’s agential realism being used to examine cases with few to no technologies present. …”

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Crash Theory: Entrapments of Conservation Drones and Endangered Megafauna

Fish

2020

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Drones deployed to monitor endangered species often crash. These crashes teach us that using drones for conservation is a contingent practice ensnaring humans, technologies, and animals. This article advances a crash theory in which pilots, conservation drones, and endangered megafauna are relata, or related actants, that intra-act, cocreating each other and a mutually constituted phenomena. These phenomena are entangled, with either reciprocal dependencies or erosive entrapments. The crashing of conservation drones and endangered species requires an ethics of care, repair, or reworlding. Diffractions, disruptions that expose difference, result from crashes and reveal the precarious manner by which technologies, laws, and discourses bring nature and culture together. To support crash theory, this article presents three ethnographic cases. A drone crash in the United Kingdom near white rhinoceroses while building machine learning training data exhibits the involvement of the electromagnetic spectrum; the threat of crashes in the Pacific Northwest near Puget Sound orcas discloses the impacts of drone laws; and drone crashes in Sri Lanka among Asian elephants presents the problems of technoliberal ideals around programming natural worlds. Throughout the article, a methodology is developed, parallelism, which attends to the material similarities in lateral phenomena.

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Introduction: Emplaced Readerly Devotions

Pyke

2019

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

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Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Undoing Theory: Walking of Arrernte Country – Co-creating Knowledge and Meaning in Central Australia

Undoing Theory: Walking of Arrernte Country – Co-creating Knowledge and Meaning in Central Australia

Crash Theory: Entrapments of Conservation Drones and Endangered Megafauna

Introduction: Emplaced Readerly Devotions

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