Abstract
Participant self observation is a form of critical autoethnography developed as a means to theorise institutional identifications and which seeks to unravel the question posed by Gilles Deleuze, ‘why do we desire what oppresses us?’ PSO is located within a baroque framework drawing on the ontology of the fold which entails a rejection of linearity and the embrace of complexity; and the epistemology of the Wunderkammer, created through the collection and artful display of textual, visual and kinaesthetic ‘research objects’. The paper presents a selection of these research objects showing how the analytical handling of these produces the fleetingly glimpsed objects of desire as points of identification.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 30 |
Journal | Education in the North |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2009 |
Keywords
- Autoethnography
- baroque
- Body without Organs
- desire
- Wunderkammer
- fold
- institutional identification
- participant self observation
- Research Assessment Exercise
- academy