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Caring Cuts : unfolding methodological sensibilities in researching postdigital worlds

Mörtsell, Sara LU orcid and Gunnarsson, Karin (2023) In Postdigital Science and Education p.173-190
Abstract
In this chapter, we introduce the configuration of caring cuts. Composed of care and cuts, two key notions in feminist posthumanism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), caring cuts addresses the entanglement of epistemology and ontology. By putting to work an ontology of relational materialisms, the chapter explores how to respond to the mess, emergence, and elusive objects that become centred by our concern and ways of producing knowledge with and on postdigital worlds. It means that vital methodological questions are raised for postdigital relationalities in education and elsewhere. Instead of seeking to untangle the postdigital, caring cuts is put to work to examine mundane research events with sensibilities of the world-making practices of... (More)
In this chapter, we introduce the configuration of caring cuts. Composed of care and cuts, two key notions in feminist posthumanism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), caring cuts addresses the entanglement of epistemology and ontology. By putting to work an ontology of relational materialisms, the chapter explores how to respond to the mess, emergence, and elusive objects that become centred by our concern and ways of producing knowledge with and on postdigital worlds. It means that vital methodological questions are raised for postdigital relationalities in education and elsewhere. Instead of seeking to untangle the postdigital, caring cuts is put to work to examine mundane research events with sensibilities of the world-making practices of research. We argue that caring cuts affords acknowledgements of the collective responsibilities that research practices involve and bring attention to the inevitably untidy and non-innocent character of knowledge production and making worlds researchable. With caring cuts, modest interruptions and uneventful events suggest a methodological sensibility of not too hastily putting things ‘right’ but acknowledging that other worlds are possible. This means that caring cuts invites thinking and researching more-than-digital relations anew. (Less)
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Postdigital Research : Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives - Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
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Postdigital Science and Education
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Jandrić, Petar ; MacKenzie, Alison and Knox, Jeremy
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18 pages
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Springer Nature
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10.1007/978-3-031-31299-1_10
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  author       = {{Mörtsell, Sara and Gunnarsson, Karin}},
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  editor       = {{Jandrić, Petar and MacKenzie, Alison and Knox, Jeremy}},
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  publisher    = {{Springer Nature}},
  series       = {{Postdigital Science and Education}},
  title        = {{Caring Cuts : unfolding methodological sensibilities in researching postdigital worlds}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-031-31299-1_10}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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