A collaborative research manifesto! An early career response to uncertainties

Barker, Ned; Pervez, Aneeza; Wahome, Michel; McKinlay, Alison; Sleiman, Nidal Al Haj; Harniess, Phillip; Puskás, Nikolett; Mac, Duy; Almazrouei, Mohammed A.; Ezenwajiaku, Chinonso; Isiwele, Anthony; Tan, Nuoya; D’aprix, Michael; Petsou, Athina; Soper, Jake Love

doi:10.1080/13645579.2023.2173839

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“…We started our prototyping in dialogue with Burd's recent series, Automaton [32]. One might say the form has a 'head' and a 'body' (see Figs 1,2,3 & 4).…”

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Living Capsules: Reflections on an Ongoing Art-Sociology Collaboration

Barker,

Burd

2024

Leonardo

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Living Capsules is the umbrella name we give to our art pieces that are being born out of an ongoing collaboration, between an artist and a sociologist, who share interests in the relations between senses, bodies, and technologies. This reflective paper tells the story of their co-creation. We introduce the notion of biohybrid systems as our sociotechnical inspiration. Second, we mark out the conceptual space in which we began to prototype Living Capsules. Third, we reflect on how and why we blend our disciplinary practices. And finally, we share and discuss some prototype pieces, sketching future directions for our continued collaboration.

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“…We started our prototyping in dialogue with Burd's recent series, Automaton [32]. One might say the form has a 'head' and a 'body' (see Figs 1,2,3 & 4).…”

Section: Prototyping Living Capsulesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living Capsules: Reflections on an Ongoing Art-Sociology Collaboration

Barker,

Burd

2024

Leonardo

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Hybrid performances in sport: Cybathlon spectatorship for critically imagining technologies for disability futures

Barker,

Parker

2024

Med Humanities

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Disabled bodies have been historically marginalised in sporting arenas and spectacles. Assistive technologies have been increasingly featuring in, and changing, sporting landscapes. In some ways recent shifts have made disability more present and visible across many (para) sporting cultures, and yet sport continues to operate on a tiered system that assumes a normative able body. This paper responds to this moment by offering imaginaries of future hybrid performances that critically engage with the politics and possibilities of novel technologies in sporting arenas and their wider impact on disability futures. These were generated from a collaborative ethnography that centred on becoming spectators of the Cybathlon Games. The Cybathlon Games began in 2016 as a global event where people with disabilities compete with technologies such as Brain-Computer Interfaces or robotic Prosthesis. Our imaginings are presented as three speculative fragments in the form of pages ripped from a comic book series,The In/Visibles. These fragments and critical reflections are grounded on themes generated through watching the Games together. The purpose of this paper is not to offer predictions or even visions of desirable futures. Rather we present future technologised sporting bodies and spectacles with a view to extend critical posthuman discussions to these arenas. Through this we highlight: (1) Thearbitrarinessof where to draw the between un/natural performances; (2) Theabsurditiesof unrestricted and open use of performance technologies when hybrid forms and functions are judged through current sporting-humanist values; and (3) The need to stayalertto socioeconomic and political drivers of sporting and disability futures. We offer these three zones of friction to guide further research when navigating the complex and shifting relations between sport, technology and the (dis)abled body now and into the future.

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The COVID-19 pandemic and methodological constraints: Autoethnographic and prefigurative responses

Williams

2024

Possibility Studies & Society

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While sets of constraints have become normalised in research production, the COVID-19 pandemic mandated shifts in research ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies. The society-wide, real-time experiment of the pandemic lockdowns constructed a set of prefigurative counterfactual contexts in which alternative structures and processes came to be, albeit briefly, normalised. Two examples illustrate the risks and opportunities that emerged. Firstly, the turn to autoethnography and creative methods offers a methodological challenge to the minoritisation of certain voices within the academy. Secondly, and more substantively, pivots in response to lockdowns offered glimpses of labour market inclusion best practice through the prefiguration of alternative workplace norms, suggesting the potential value of prefigurative counterfactuals as research method. Nevertheless, both methodological and substantive insights explored here in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic were mediated by technology which has the potential to reproduce embedded dominant epistemologies and ontologies.

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A collaborative research manifesto! An early career response to uncertainties

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Living Capsules: Reflections on an Ongoing Art-Sociology Collaboration

Living Capsules: Reflections on an Ongoing Art-Sociology Collaboration

Hybrid performances in sport: Cybathlon spectatorship for critically imagining technologies for disability futures

The COVID-19 pandemic and methodological constraints: Autoethnographic and prefigurative responses

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