This workshop will act both as a presentation of the article “and-hypo-critic forays” (Brauer, forthcoming) and as a collaborative exploration of the creative-critical affordances of sticky notes. The article is a poetic inquiry into my positionalities as a novice researcher in educational science, relating to traditional (Northern) ways of knowing and being as well as ‘post-’ (modern/qualitative/humanist), feminist and de/colonial ontoepistemologies. Taking ‘mastery’ to be an oppressive concept (Singh, 2017), the poem avoids making definitive statements, instead consisting of a continuing re-posing of questions, interspersed with mutated quotes from academia and popular culture, nonsensical lines of flight, and personal reflections. 

The inbuilt open-endedness of “and-hypo-critic-forays” hopefully lends itself to continued collaborative exchange. It is an assemblage intended to be charged with numerous intensities (Deleuze & Guattari, 1975/2008), inviting readers as co-creators. I mean to investigate these intensities in a more concrete manner, through the use of sticky notes. Owing to the tangible yet transient nature of sticky notes, I argue that they can constitute a unique method for messy and spontaneous co-creation of rich material. The threshold of the sticky note is low; as opposed to a common notepad in which removing a page entails some violence (however slight), the sticky note is immanently re-movable. Borrowing from Sara Ahmed’s concept of sticky objects, sticky notes can be created in (ostensible) isolation, but sooner or later they tend to move, to attach to other objects (texts, desks, walls, computer monitors, other notes, floors, foreheads), and to detach again (whether by choice or insufficient stickiness) – making a materially tangible yet protean rhizomatic assemblage (Deleuze & Guattari, 1975/2008)

References

Brauer, A. (Forthcoming). and-hypo-critic-forays. Tidskrift För Genusvetenskap.

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (2008). Kafka: Toward a minor literature. University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 1975)

Singh, J. (2017). Unthinking mastery: Dehumanism and decolonial entanglements. Duke University Press.