Abstract

HARGRAVES, Vicki. Research becomes entangled. ETD [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.3, pp.541-552. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v18i3.8646104.

In this paper I seek to explore how we might conceptualise research when subject and object are entangled: when subject can no longer be thought as a unified body, a conscious Self, formed by its unique history of experiences and interactions; when object exceeds its passive identity and relations of analogy, resemblance and opposition (Deleuze, 1994) with other objects. This paper interrogates how an immanent materialism affects understandings of doing research, what it means to fail to distinguish researcher from research or method or findings, and to abandon attempts to fully extract the research data from its ongoing relations with all matter. Immanent materialism offers a view of the subject-who-researches and the object-researched as entangled in multiplicities of matter interconnecting, co-influencing, individuating and always becoming new. This is a metaphysics of univocity, in which each body or thing is placed in immanent connection with every potentiality of form. What we abstract or distinguish as data in this moment is connected to everything else - every other form, and every potential for form, past, present and future. Here the 'data' object and the 'researcher' subject become inclusive of all the universe, replete with virtual potential. Thus I argue an immanent materialism expands notions of data, compelling us to regard everything as data: the subject, the objects, their representation, and their virtual potential to become-new. The entanglement of a univocal data is presented as an alternative to the striations of methodology typologies and procedures in order to open lines of potentiality in research. Instead of subjectobject, there is only data, and data, and data, and...

Keywords : Deleuze; Immanent Materialism; Research.

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