Thinking with Posthuman Perspectives in Self-Study Research |
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Authors: | Katie Strom Tammy Mills Linda Abrams Charity Dacey |
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Institution: | 1. California State University, USA;2. University of Maine, USA;3. Knowles Teacher Initiative, USA;4. Montclair State University, USA |
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Abstract: | In this study, we set out to explore processes of individual and group becomings of a self-study collective over time and distance, and with/through technology. Born out of a self-study project in one of our early doctoral courses, our self-study community has evolved over several years to one that is hybrid in nature. As we have continued our collaboration through online media, a tension arose at the juncture of our fundamentally relational work together, our need for the physical, embodied aspect of learning and self-study and the hybrid, often disembodied, experience provided by substituting online meetings for those conducted in-person. In this article we explore these tensions through pivotal moments and lines of flight in our self-study work over the past year. To frame these moments, we draw on ideas from posthumanism, which offers ways to conceptualize our collective as a multiplicity, account for the relational and material aspects of our work, address the agency of non-human actors (such as technology) in our collaboration, and consider our self-study practice a dynamic, complex, contextualized, situated phenomenon. |
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Keywords: | Collaborative self-study posthuman Deleuze assemblage technology |
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