Imagining the Real: The Photographic Image and Imagination in Knowledge Production

Mjaaland, Thera

doi:10.1080/08949468.2017.1255079

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“…And yet, the pandemic informs my eye in each of these shots, reframing even ordinary domestic activities in the affective texture of this moment. Imagination intervenes, both in my act of framing the shot, and in your process of reading it (Mjaaland, 2017;Smith 2013). Luvaas: ALien domestiCity So many of the images we encounter in the social sciences are subjected to the disciplinary framing of words (see Berger, 1982: 89).…”

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Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic

Luvaas

2022

Visual Communication

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Cultural geography and the related disciplines of urban sociology and anthropology have long focused their theoretical lenses on the city as a space of lived multiplicity. This photographic essay focuses its lens on the home as such a space. During the pandemic lockdown of 2020–2021, many of us spent more time in our homes than we ever had before, working, teaching, schooling, shopping, and barricading ourselves from the outside world. This essay borrows from the often ambiguous and anonymizing aesthetics of street photography to depict the multiple, overlapping worlds of home during a pandemic. Home, as depicted here, is an always unfinished process of affective assemblage and dissolution. The images featured seek to capture that lack of resolution, the messy emotional texture of home life under lockdown.

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Luvaas

2022

Visual Communication

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“…These apparatuses do not measure but, rather, produce material realities. We can study how the materialities of the RCT and the sensor system come to matter and how ‘objectivity is redefined in terms of accountability to the interferences made and the responsibilities following from intra‐acting within and as part of the world' (Mjaaland : 13). We analyse what boundary‐making and marking they attempt to enact, what inclusions and exclusions they entail and what possibilities they configure, particularly in relation to those already present in the wards.…”

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Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis

Timmons

Vezyridis

Sahota

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper analyses the 'failure' of a patient safety intervention. Our study was part of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio pagers to prevent bedside falls in older people admitted to hospital. We use agential realism within science and technology studies to examine the fall and its prevention as a situated phenomenon of knowledge that is made and unmade through intra-actions between environment, culture, humans and technologies. We show that neither the intervention (the pressure sensor system), nor the outcome (fall prevention) could be disentangled from the broader sociomaterial context of the ward, the patients, the nurses and (especially) their work through the RCT. We argue that the RCT design, by virtue of its unacknowledged assumptions, played a part in creating the negative findings. The study also raises wider questions about the kind of subjectivities, agencies and power relations these entanglements might effect and (re)produce in the hospital ward.We are using a performative perspective situated in science and technology studies (Barad 2007, Latour 2005, Mol 2002. The main insight of this tradition is that technologies are not neutral objects, and that they have an active existence, and meanings, within the sociomaterial

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“…Such agential cuts iteratively allow perception of boundaries within entangled realities, where subject and object “emerge through intra-actions” (Barad, 2007, p. 89). Using the concept of agential cuts to inspect the varying perceptions of the world has been applied to the analysis of many social practices, including selfie-taking (Warfield, 2016), children’s play (Änggård, 2016; Hultman & Lenz Taguchi, 2010), and a consideration of houses/homes (Mjaaland, 2017). Wendt offers a similar argument for temporary boundary making, recognizing that “.…”

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“…In other cases, diffraction is explored more methodologically, whereby the instrument of measurement affects not just the measured results but the reality of those results. This is seen in Mjaaland (2017), where the “measuring agent” of the camera (and photographer) serves as a diffractive apparatus and captures the ambiguity of houses/homes in photographs. Here, the combined agential cuts of the camera (framing, lighting, duration etc.)…”

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Diffracting the “Quantum” and the “Social”: Meeting the Universe Halfway in Social Science

Dunk

2019

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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The “quantum” label has become a desirable brand in social studies, with notable prominence being given to Karen Barad’s agential realism, as presented in her book Meeting the Universe Halfway. This article provides an overview of the key ideas in the book, exemplifying the ways these ideas may help us “do inquiry” in the social sciences. By drawing from Barad’s writing and making comparisons with other social thinking with quantum elements, we can demonstrate the potential for productive and insightful avenues of investigation across interdisciplinary areas, particularly through a consideration of diffractive approaches to inquiry.

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Imagining the Real: The Photographic Image and Imagination in Knowledge Production

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic

Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic

Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis

Diffracting the “Quantum” and the “Social”: Meeting the Universe Halfway in Social Science

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