The Exegesis as Meme

Creative Qualitative Research in Behavioral Science: A Pragmatic Epistemology of Experimenting

“…Our interest, if not our duty, lies in the exploration of radical, transgressive forms that strive to open up and disrupt such consuetudinal agency and work with tools that open the self to radical transformations, allowing for uncertainty and doubt. Inspirations come from Barrett and her 'exegesis as meme' and her suggestions of novel ways of asking the validity questions [28] from Trinh's experiments wherein disrupted forms of representation with quotes, and film images juxtaposed intertextuality in ambitious discontinuous forms challenge conventional meaning, "incorporating the poetic into the analytic", and unveil "decentered realities, fragmented selves and multiple identities, languages of rupture" [29], but also from Vincs' dance research [30], Perry's creative writing research [31] and other artists' practices viewed as knowledge production and a kind of philosophy-in-action [32]. Such research approaches can be acts of necessity, born out of the struggle of representation, the need to create new forms through which to represent alternative knowledges.…”

Diffractive pedagogies: dancing across new materialist imaginaries

“…In Material Thinking (2004) Carter explains that "the language of creative research is related to the goal of material thinking, and both look beyond the making process to the local reinvention of social relations" (10). Building on this change Carter advocates through creative processes of Material Thinking, Barrett (2007) proposes that "artistic practice be viewed as the production of knowledge or philosophy in action" and specifically suggests: "[t]he emergence of the discipline of practice-led research highlights the crucial interrelationship that exists between theory and practice and the relevance of theoretical and philosophical paradigms for the contemporary arts practitioner" (1). 'Making' produces new thought, but such thought is disavowed and devalued through processes of feminization and abjection.…”

This is Not an Article: a reflection on Creative Research Dialogues (This is Not a Seminar)

“…The first was a workshop on journaling, a necessary practice-led andbased technique for documentation and reflection of and on process. We discussed how journaling assists with exegetical writing through the revisioning of research ideas and practice (Barrett, 2007), and how it can often reveal an internal dialogue. We also discussed the scope of what constitutes a journal.…”