Methodologies for the Apocalypse: Unthinking the Thinkable

Koro‐Ljungberg, Mirka; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.

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“…East Germany had thus degenerated from a would-be utopian state of consonance to one of linguistic and poetic dissonance-the flavor of imminent apocalypse (a preview of Koro & Wolgermuth, 2022?) was now clearly discernible. The Stasi poetry circle no longer created love poems about Marx and Lenin or their own girlfriends but about current affairs: Apocalypse was not just a vague fear haunting them but a game planned on both sides of the Iron Curtain which could result in a nuclear Armageddon: the world was hovering on a precipice-Doomsday was coming (see Oltermann, 2022, pp.…”

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“…This is not to claim that our scribbled versions of utopia will ever be perfect. All that we can hope for is to see our scribbling toward utopia as inquiries into what that utopia could be like, especially the idea of a remade world for us all during this potentially apocalyptic time (see Koro & Wolgermuth, 2022).…”

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“…Yes we do if we believe that we are now facing or are even experiencing a world-breaking, world-destroying, catastrophe. According to some we need to confront this apocalypse by smashing the machinery of capitalism and neoliberalism, to reproduce ourselves to be more comfortable with the unthinkable and unforeseen (see Koro & Wolgermuth, 2022). This may sound more like Orwell and late Foucault.…”

Section: Do We Still Need To Scribble For a New Utopia?mentioning

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Scribbling Toward Utopia

Badley

2023

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I first invoke Joan Didion’s essay “Slouching Towards Jerusalem.” Her concern was to move away from the dystopia that parts of the United States had become through drug use and other temptations toward a more utopian state. My attempt uses a number of examples where utopias have been imagined and some where the main lesson is cautionary rather than optimistic. Even Sir Thomas More’s Utopia had its faults while the East German vision of a socialist utopia collapsed into tyranny and farce. My scribbles are modest attempts to promote a just society, a kind of utopia—maybe.

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Scribbling Toward Utopia

Badley

2023

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“…Heroic Coding can be a suitable method to study the role of social actors in complex contexts or, in the words of Koro and Wolgemuth (2022), in apocalyptic conditions where researchers must “slow down, to dwell in the unfolding of methods and methodologies, and to avoid careful and unnecessary planning” (p. 4). The coding method presented in this article offers a tool we hope other qualitative researchers can explore and enrich.…”

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“…Our starting point in this article is that the pandemic, more than a disruption of normality, has meant a space for creating sustainable ways of living and surviving under different epistemological, ontological, and material conditions (Koro & Wolgemuth, 2022). This also involves research processes, where many virtualized environments have invited us to make responsible, respectful, and responsive decisions to new dynamics of data production and analysis and new relationships with the participants in our studies (Richardson et al, 2021).…”

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Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios

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Moreno-Londoño

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article aims to describe a new coding and data analysis method for qualitative researchers, especially in education and health inquiry. We label this method Heroic Coding, a proposal for understanding the role of education and health personnel in apocalyptic scenarios. We propose this method as a subtype within Literature and Language Coding methods described in Saldaña’s The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Heroic Coding employs, in the first cycle coding, an eclectic strategy and, in the second cycle, an elaborative strategy to refine conceptual dimensions about heroes and heroic subjectivities. This article uses a data set from empirical research in education policy enactments to illustrate Heroic Coding in action. Furthermore, we reflect on future possibilities and limitations of this coding method for qualitative research in apocalyptic conditions.

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Queering Apocalyptic Methodologies: Enacting the Utopian Performative through Extended Reality Artwork

Tytler

2024

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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This paper takes its cue from Koro and Wolgemuth’s conceptual writing on Apocalyptic Methodologies as an extended prompt to enact the utopian performative as a form of generative Queer Ecopedagogy. A utopian performative is the performance of future potential that critiques our present political moment, highlighting that the present is not enough. The paper offers a troubling of “nature” and place, in its suggestion that digital space can be a refuge for EE practice. It looks to virtual reality as a realm used to create space free from the constraints of colonial history or normative prescriptions of the non/human binary. The VR artwork Thalu: Dreamtime is Now, by Indigenous Ngarluma creator Tyson Mowarin is analysed to make a case that the digital realm can act as a reclamation and resistance to present colonialist realities, thereby enacting the utopian performative. By queering apocalyptic methodologies, the aim is to transcend traditional boundaries and reimagine the role of researchers, educators and custodians of the environment through apocalyptic imaginaries. In this endeavour, the utopian performative is only permissible through the digital space and therefore the political present, is not enough.

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Methodologies for the Apocalypse: Unthinking the Thinkable

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Scribbling Toward Utopia

Scribbling Toward Utopia

Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios

Queering Apocalyptic Methodologies: Enacting the Utopian Performative through Extended Reality Artwork

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