Diffracting Diffractive Readings of Texts as Methodology: Some Propositions

• In Event: 64.087 - MTCC Roundtable Session 28
  In Roundtable Session: 64.087-7 - Reading and Inquiring With/in/Through Post-Theories

Abstract

Re-turning to our experiences of putting a diffractive methodology to work ourselves, as well as engaging with the writings of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, we produce some guidelines on a diffractive methodology for pedagogues and researchers to consider. Avoiding prescription and a rush to application, we take up Stephanie Springgay’s proposal to develop propositions (thirty in fact) that disrupt the theory/practice binary and activate a self-organizing potential for adopting a diffractive methodology in teaching and research. We diffract through the diffractive methodology (spatial and temporal), theory and practice as a way of activating experimentation with the affirmative method of diffractively reading texts, oeuvres and philosophies through one another.

Authors

• Karin Saskia Murris, University of Cape Town

• Vivienne Grace Bozalek, University of the Western Cape