Madness as methodology : bringing concepts to life in contemporary theorizing and inquiry
Gale, Ken
Madness as methodology : bringing concepts to life in contemporary theorizing and inquiry - New York Routledge 2018 - xiv, 193 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Madness as Methodology begins with the following quotation from Deleuze and Guattari, ‘Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.’ This quotation firmly expresses the book’s intention to provide readers with radical and innovative approaches to methodology and research in the arts, humanities and education practices. It conceptualises madness, not as a condition of an individual or particular being, but rather as a process that does things differently in terms of creativity and world making.
Through a posthuman theorising as practice, the book emphasises forms of becoming and differentiation that sees all bodies, human and nonhuman, as acting in constant, fluid, relational play. The book offers a means of breaking through and challenging the constraints and limitations of Positivist approaches to established research practice. Therefore, experimentation, concept making as event and a going off the rails are offered as necessary means of inquiry into worlds that are considered to be always not yet known.
9781138066021
Methodology
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Ontology
001.4 / GAL
Madness as methodology : bringing concepts to life in contemporary theorizing and inquiry - New York Routledge 2018 - xiv, 193 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Madness as Methodology begins with the following quotation from Deleuze and Guattari, ‘Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.’ This quotation firmly expresses the book’s intention to provide readers with radical and innovative approaches to methodology and research in the arts, humanities and education practices. It conceptualises madness, not as a condition of an individual or particular being, but rather as a process that does things differently in terms of creativity and world making.
Through a posthuman theorising as practice, the book emphasises forms of becoming and differentiation that sees all bodies, human and nonhuman, as acting in constant, fluid, relational play. The book offers a means of breaking through and challenging the constraints and limitations of Positivist approaches to established research practice. Therefore, experimentation, concept making as event and a going off the rails are offered as necessary means of inquiry into worlds that are considered to be always not yet known.
9781138066021
Methodology
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Ontology
001.4 / GAL