Open AccessResearch as entanglement
Author(s) -
Vicki Hargraves
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
etd. educação temática digital
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1676-2592
DOI - 10.20396/etd.v18i3.8646104
Subject(s) - materialism , subject (documents) , analogy , epistemology , object (grammar) , quantum entanglement , representation (politics) , subject matter , identity (music) , sociology , computer science , philosophy , aesthetics , artificial intelligence , political science , quantum , physics , law , world wide web , pedagogy , quantum mechanics , politics , curriculum
In this paper I seek to explore how we might conceptualise research when subject and object are entangled: when subject can no longer be thought as a unified body, a conscious Self, formed by its unique history of experiences and interactions; when object exceeds its passive identity and relations of analogy, resemblance and opposition (Deleuze, 1994) with other objects. This paper interrogates how an immanent materialism affects understandings of doing research, what it means to fail to distinguish researcher from research or method or findings, and to abandon attempts to fully extract the research data from its ongoing relations with all matter. Immanent materialism offers a view of the subject-who-researches and the object-researched as entangled in multiplicities of matter interconnecting, co-influencing, individuating and always becoming new. Data expands to include all: the subject, the objects, their representation, and their virtual potential to become-new. Instead of subject-object, there is only data, and data, and data, and...