A post-qualitative inquiry into teaching and research possibilities
Correspondence
“If, today, our world is in crisis, it is because we have forgotten how
to correspond. We have engaged, instead, in campaigns of interaction. Parties
to interaction face each other with their identities and objectives already in
place, and transact in ways that serve, but do nothing to transform, their
separate interests. Their difference is given from the start, and remains
afterward. Interaction is thus a between relation. Correspondence,
however, goes along. The trouble is that we have been so wrapped up in
our interactions with others that we have failed to notice how both we and they
go along together in the current of time… correspondence is about the ways
along which lives, in their perpetual unfolding or becoming, simultaneously
join together and differentiate themselves, one from another. This shift from
interaction to correspondence entails a fundamental reorientation, from the between-ness
of beings and things to their in-betweenness.
Tim Ingold, Correspondences (2021)
Interiority
“If we focus on what’s going on inside ourselves – sensations, emotions, the patterns of our thoughts – a wealth of material can be found. Our inner world is every bit as interesting, beautiful, and surprising as nature itself. It is, after all, born of nature.
When we go inside, we are processing what’s going on outside. We’re no longer separate. We’re connected. We are one.
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being (2023)
Emergent Dialogue
Exploring
Pathways of creative emergence
Examples of emergent participation