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Publication Date: 2017
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Beyond Cyborg Subjectivities: Becoming-Posthumanist Educational Researchers
Gough, Annette; Gough, Noel
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v49 n11 p1112-1124 2017
This excerpt from our collective biography emerges from a dialogue that commenced when Noel interjected the concept of "becoming-cyborg" into our conversations about Annette's experiences of breast cancer, which initially prompted her to (re)interpret her experiences as a "chaos narrative" of cyborgian and environmental embodiment in education contexts. The materialisation of Donna Haraway's figuration of the cyborg in Annette's changing body enabled new appreciations of its interpretive power, and functioned in some ways as a successor project to Noel's earlier deployment of cyborgs in what he now recognises as a "posthumanising" of curriculum inquiry. Noel's subsequent experiences with throat cancer drew us towards exploring the possibilities that concepts such as Deleuze and Guattari's "machinic assemblage" and Karen Barad's "ontoepistemology" offer as a mean of thinking the meetings of bodies and technologies in educational inquiry beyond Haraway's hybrid cyborg. Through both collective biography and playfully scripted conversations with other theorists we explore what it means to perform diffractive interpretations and analyses in posthumanist educational inquiry. Our essay also contributes to contemporary conversations about the uses of collaborative biographical writing as a method of inquiry in educational research.
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Cancer, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Biographies, Educational Theories, Dialogs (Language), Epistemology, Educational Environment
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