Bosse Bergstedt

Nyheter 2024

Bogforum, Bella Center, København. Søndag 3 november kl. 13.00-14.30.
Mød forfatteren Bosse Bergstedt, hør om hans nye filosofibog Allt på en gång! og stil spørgsmål til sammenhængen mellem Niels Bohr, Grundtvig og Inger Christensen.

Bosse Bergstedt taler med gæster om sin nye bog Allt på en gång! Om fenomens sammanflätningar och superpositioner. På svensk i 2024, på dansk i 2025. Få som gæster på stand C1-018I en hurtig introduktion til mødet mellem tre danske tænkere, Niels Bohr, N F S Grundtvig og Inger Christensen. Er der noget, der forener kvantefysik, livsoplysning og poesiens hemmelige tilstand? Hvad kan disse tænkere bidrage med til vores tid?

Konferens Resonans: pedagogik - kropp - materia

Konferens med INTRA i samverkan med forskargruppen Praksisnær forskning og postkvalitative forskningsmetoder, Høgskolen i Østfold.
Lördag 9 november kl 12.30 – söndag 10 november 13.00
Plats: Vandalorum, museum för konst- och design i Värnamo.

Pedagogik utgår från att kunskap blir till i relationer. I en antropocentrisk tid utmanas vi till att skapa relationer på nya sätt där människan inte längre sätter sig i centrum av tillvaron. I detta seminarium utforskar vi därför kroppens och materians betydelse för kunskap och sätter fokus på estetiska kunskapsprocesser. Utmaningen består i att skapa relationer och kunskap på nya sätt. Hur blir sammanflätningar till mellan kropp och materia? Vad menas med att fenomen befinner sig i ett tillstånd superposition?

Föreläsning Vestjyllands Højskole 27 juni

Hvordan kan ting fremme inspirationen, vække erindringen og skabe gode tekster? Professor i pædagogik Bosse Bergstedt tager udgangspunkt i Nobelprisvinderen Orhan Pamuk og hans roman og museum Uskyldens Museum i Istanbul.

Konferens NERA 2024

NERA, The Nordic Educational Research Association, 53 Congress, Adventures of Education: Desires, Encounters and Differences, Malmö universitet 5-8 mars 2024

Presentation of two paper:

Superposition - how phenomena come into being in several places at the same time. 

This paper describes a research that aims to explore how phenomena come into being by a superposition in several places at the same time. How is it possible to research the superposition of phenomena without observations placing them as positions? The ontological starting points are based on assumptions about a world that are repeated through an internal difference (Deleuze, Guattari 2015). Phenomena respond to the constant repetition of the world by striving for superposition. This is done by an entanglement that makes them avoid uniform positions (Barad 2007). To describe which phenomena do this the paper focuses on unaccepted moments, like quantum leaps (Bhor 2013), and how superposition can be repaired in a linguistic and visual embodiment.

Sound - a border phenomenon with superposition.

This paper discusses how sound as a phenomenon can increase the understanding of emerging phenomena and why sound is important in pedagogy. With the theories of quantum physics, sound can be described as a boundary phenomenon that has the possibility of being created by superposition (Bohr 2013, Nørretranders 2022). This allows sound to be created in several places at the same time until it is observed and given a position. Something that can lead to ontological discoveries of a world that is constantly repeated and whose effects enable the emergence of the becoming of phenomena (Barad 2007, Bergstedt, 2021)

Ännu en inspirerande konferens arrangerad av nätverket Post-approaches to Education. Temat för detta års pre-conference var Mis/ adventures in education: post approaches to research and learning. While an adventure has positive connotations, a misadventure denotes a plan that has gone wrong or awry. How might misadventures open up new possibilities for education? How can we stay with the trouble (Haraway, 2016) of misadventure? Together, we hope to explore post-approaches to tensions in issues concerning education, the human, children, power, ethics, the body and more. 

Program:
Speedtroubling a kind of speed-dating where we share some ‘troubles/knots/research quandaries’ with each other.  
Jayne Osgood: 'Mis/adventures requiring care and recklessness: response-abilities in playful research'
Sharing spaces for mis/adventures. Participants share their projects, focusing on academic mis/adventures to collaboratively think with.

Bilden kommer från Tarja Karlsson Häikiö presentation Mis/adventure as educator from a Reggio Emilia-inspired perspective – living within and outside of the rabbit hole of networking.

Webinar om postkvalitativ forskning

Forskargruppen Praksisnær forskning og postkvalitative metoder vid Høgskolen i Østfold inbjuder till samtal om postkvalitativa perspektiv och metoder.

Onsdag 20 mars, kl 14-16 Kvantfysiken och postkvalitativa metoder.

https://hiof.zoom.us/j/66261188754?pwd=T3F6ZFpRWTU5NllMVVdqWFJHYW0vUT09

Om hur kvantfysik kan få oss att upptäcka hur fenomen blir till. Ett samtal om begreppen superposition, entanglement och kvantsprång och om Tor Nørretranders nya bok I syv sind. Kvantecomputeren får os til att opdaga os selv. Gyldendal 2023.

Onsdag 24 april kl 14-16 Posthumanist research and writing as agentic acts of inclusion.

https://hiof.zoom.us/j/64759370312?pwd=YWJ2anRuV0ppRVdBMnFSaC83bWZrZz09

Anne Beate Reinertsen och Louise M. Thomas presenterar sin nya bok  Posthumanist research and writing as agentic acts of inclusion. Knowledge Forced Open. Routledge 2024

This book addresses the constitution of knowledge as an uncertain process, understanding text as spaces for entanglements of knowledge – knowledge not as certainty but as uncertainty – and writing as the act and art of engaging with these entanglements. Through examining research from multiple perspectives, text, stories as narrative are constructed as data – showing ethnographic engagements between writers, readers and texts. The authors show how to construct messy entanglements of continual, always already constant thinking and becomings, through the art and science of research and writing as knowledging processes.

Suitable for scholars of posthumanist thinking in Education and the social sciences, this book challenges the academy to look at new ways of thinking with and through knowledge and showing the importance of such processes.

7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 
University of Helsinki, 10-12 January 2024, Helsinki, Finland 
HOW TO PRESERVE SUPERPOSITION IN POST-QUALITATIVE RESEARCH?
Fri 12.1.2024, 11:15–12:45 Room U4078, Main building
Presenter:  Bosse Bergstedt, Østfold University College, Norway
Keywords: superposition, entanglement, quantum leaps, haptic sensorium, moment

Abstract

I will do this based on three concept "superposition", "entanglement" and “quantum leaps” (Barad 2007, Zellinger 2010, Nørretranders 2022). Superposition means that a particle is in many places at the same time. Entanglement means that two or more particles are intertwined with each other in a way that can almost be described as symbiosis.

The question is how particles manage to connect through entanglement and at the same time be in superposition? This is where the concept of quantum leaps becomes interesting (Barard 2007, Bohr 2013). It is not possible to predict where and when the particle will make such a leap. This is something that goes on until the particles are measured or observed. Then the particle must profess existence by choosing a state and becoming a position of either 0 or 1. (Nørretranders 2022).

What does this mean for a research process, is it possible to do research without turning phenomena into a dualistic position? One possibility is to use the body as a research instrument. The body strives for superposition and comes into being through entanglement if it does not make other phenomena into objects. To do this I have selected the concept haptic sensorium (Bergstedt 2021a). That make it possible to be touched by the affects (Massumi 2002) that is created when the body relates to a phenomenon. To succeed in this, it is important to pay attention to accidental and unplanned moments.

This paper describes how this can be used as a post-qualitative method (Barad 2007, Juelskjær 2019, Bergstedt 2021b). Examples that want to include participatory research where the participants together carry out sound walks to explore what happens at a seashore or in a schoolyard.

Nyheter 2023

Vestjyllands Højskole, Nytårskursus 2023-24

”Ved det nyt år. Fire pædagogiske filosoffer, der ændrede os.”

Fire pædagogiske tænkere, der gav os nye perspektiver på vores eget liv og verden. Et publikumsinddragende og filosofihistorisk foredrag. Hør om Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, Hannah Arendt og Karen Barad. Fire pædagogiske filosoffer, der ændrede os.

Konferens

Frigörande, affektiva och estetiska perspektiv på pedagogik i praktik och forskning.

En konferens i samverkan mellan Høgskolen i Østfold och forskargruppen INTRA på konstmuseet Vandalorum i Värnamo, lördag 30 september. Deltagare från USA, Finland, Danmark, Norge och Sverige möttes kring tre teman; expressiv art, frigörande pedagogik och new materialism. I samband med konferensen lanseras ”Projekt Paulo Freire” , mer info om forskargruppen INTRA finns på https://forskargruppenintra.se.

Disputation

Kathrine Liedtke Thorndahl will defend her Ph.D. No More Neat Fugues: Singing the Praises of Problem-Based Learning in a Minor Agential Realist Key Slightly Out of Tune at Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Thursday 26.09.2023, 13.00-16.00.

Ph.D. defense by Kathrine Liedtke Thorndahl - Aalborg University (aau.dk)

Konferens

I am speaking at ECER 2023, Glasgow. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #ECER2023 - via #Whova event app

Disputation

Greta Jiménez disputerade på doktorsavhandlingen: At ”reika” i den færøske daginstitution: En de-kolonial undersøgelse af trivsel i daginstitutionspolitik og praksis i rigsfællesskabet, Fredagen den 8 september 2023 kl. 13:00, DPU - Danmarks institut for Pædagogik og Uddannelse, Aarhus Universitet, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 København NV, bygning D (7220), lokale: D169.

https://events.au.dk/phd-forsvar-gretajimenez

Greta Jiménez vart ph.d. á DPU - (gransking.fo)

Konferens 

Frigörande, affektiva och estetiska perspektiv på pedagogik i praktik och forskning

Endagskonferens med forskargruppen INTRA i samverkan med Høgskolen i Østfold. Datum: 30 september 2023 Plats: Vandalorum i Värnamo Kostnad: 900 kr, vilket inkluderar samtliga seminarium, fika, lunch och inträde till Vandalorums konstutställningar. Mer info om konferensen och anmälan under Aktualiteter på www.forskargruppenintra.se.

I samband med konferensen lanseras ”Projekt Paulo Freire” där Jan-Erik Pernemans mångåriga arbete i Freires fotspår presenteras i form av filmer, ett Freire-bibliotek samt en lista över ett internationellt kontaktnät i spåren av Freires gärning.

Program
9.30-10.00: Välkommen med fika
10.00-11.30: Seminarium 1. Frigörande pedagogik i vår tid
11.30-12.30: Lunch
12.30-14.00: Seminarium 2. Expressive Arts, den frigörande pedagogiken och nymaterialistisk teori
14.00-14.30: Fika
14.30-16.00: Seminarium 3. Praktiknära forskning och postkvalitativa metoder 16.00: Eftersnack

Anmälan görs senast den 1 september till per@apelmointermodal.se. För dig som vill övernatta erbjuds rabatterat boende på hotell Vidöstern samt på Scandic hotel i Värnamo.
Välkomna hälsar Forskargruppen INTRA och Högskolen i Østfold

Webinar

Forskargruppen Praksisnær forskning og postkvalitative metoder inbjuder till två webinar på Zoom. 

Onsdag 26 april: Pedagogikens oväntade ögonblick

Onsdag 24 maj: Multisensoriske metoder og analyser

Program onsdag 26 april 2023 kl 14.00 – 16.00

https://hiof.zoom.us/j/62560424008?pwd=KzBhalQzMklteDEraTNkWEhhaWJ4QT09

Rapporter från disputationer och konferenser

NERAs konferens på Oslo Met, 15-17 mars

Nytt norsk nätverk FAM –norsk nettverk for filosofi, affekt og materialitet i møter med barn og barndom

Seminarium Pedagogikens oväntade ögonblick

Samtal om case-assemblage och andra metodiska begrepp som används i Åsa Anderssons avhandling titeln Sustainable inclusion without sustainability – Working on equal participation and unforeseen movement in physical education, sports, and research.

Åsa Andersson, disputerade vid Institutionen för kost- och idrottsvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet, 23 mars 2023. https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/74657

Program Onsdag 24 maj 2023kl 14.00 – 16.00

https://hiof.zoom.us/j/64917967878?pwd=TTUweUk4NFNBWWtxNVN1M2xjZ2RRQT09

Rapporter från disputationer och konferenser

Seminarium Multisensoriske metoder og analyser

Samtal om den nyutgivna boken, Multisensoriske metoder og analyser- til undersøgelser af pædagogiske praksisser, Helene Falkenberg (red.) og Sofie Sauzet (red.)

https://samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/multisensoriske-metoder-og-analyser

Hvad får man f.eks. fornemmelser for og indsigter i, når man undersøger professionelles samvittighed ved at følge dem på måder, der minder om dans, hvor kroppen, blikket og mimikken sættes i forgrunden? Hvordan kan man forstå pædagogik som sensorisk og æstetisk praksis, når man dvæler ved Vestkystens strande og mærker, hvordan tid, steder og kroppe er forbundne? Hvordan giver baggrundsstøj og lyde adgang til viden om hverdagslivet på pædagogiske bosteder? Hvad sker der med undersøgelser af pædagogisk praksis, når man sænker tempoet, bevæger sig langsomt og bruger sin syns-, lugte- og lyttesans? Og hvilken viden genererer det, når man bevæger sig med dem, man undersøger, mærker deres stemninger og interesserer sig for deres stil, smag og mavefornemmelser?

Disputation

Åsa Andersson, Institutionen för kost- och idrottsvetenskap försvarar sin avhandling med titeln Sustainable inclusion without sustainability – Working on equal participation and unforeseen movement in physical education, sports, and research.

Torsdag 23 mar 2023, 13:00 - 16:30

Lokal: BE 036, Läroverksgatan 15, Hus B, Pedagogen, Göteborgs universitet

https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/74657

Konferens

NERA 2023: Digitalisering og teknologi i utdanning - muligheter og utfordringer, 15-17 mars, Oslo Met.

Roundtable presentation with Samira Jamouchi and Lap-Xuan Do Nguyen, abstract:

Roundtable as a playroom event and place of artistic becoming

Intro

The roundtable is organised both sequential and organically. We shall have two distinct but interconnected presentations. We inquire relationships between art, artistic teaching, and artistic research through the framework of new materialism and post humanism.

The two presentations are also a visual and oral example of a rhizomatic system between art, pedagogy and research. Bosse, Lap-Xuan and Samira take into action and take into account their works in their on-going process of entangled acts that reveal each other.

First presentation

The first presentation is held by Bosse and Samira. They will present a project about teacher students during their practices in Norwegian primary school. The aim of the project is to initiate a cross-institutional constellation between university college, primary school and the art collective Tenthaus. The aim of the project is to see how artists that work with the public with relevant socially engaged practice can add to, or how it can expend, an understanding of what art can do in school.

The form of their presentation in inspired by their theoretical / philosophical framework: Barad (2007), Deleuze and Guattari (1980), and Haraway (2016). Bosse and Samira will bring yarn/threads and words to the table. The words and threads will be entangled between the contributors and the audience. By doing so the making/playing with objects will facilitate intra-action with the audience to discuss the questions during the finissage (the closing part of the roundtable). 

Second presentation

The second presentation will integrate and build on the first one. Lap-Xuan and Samira will present a new phase of their performative talk series called: “When I think about you and…”. Their encounters grow as a rhizomatic network bringing process of exchanging the-knowns be-coming the-unknowns and vice versa. We embrace the intensity of our conversations in artistic talks and the unforeseen, as powerful moments evolving from a known past connected to a together becoming of the experienced moments. It is in this state of becoming as making-with that sympoiesis takes us further.

Finissage

The two presentations will leave traces on the table, as thread, words, objects. It is with the public at we wish to see what becoming can arise in the discussion with the conference attendees.

Paper presentation, abstract:

Superpositions and Entanglement. What happens in the event of agential cuts?

This paper explores what happens when a research process makes agential cuts. The research question highlights the concepts of “superposition” and “entanglement”, which are used in quantum physics to describe the becoming of particles (Zellinger 2010, Nørretranders 2022).

Superposition means that a particle is in many places at the same time. The particle can move by choosing all paths between two points at the same time and information can travel over great distances without taking any time at all.

Entanglement means that two particles have properties that they get from being connected by being either opposite or equal. When the particles are separated, they will still be entangled and have superposition.

Superposition and entanglement mean that it is not possible to describe one particle without simultaneously describing that it is part of a context with the other. They form a whole and cannot be understood to be in and of themselves, if one's condition changes, the other does the same (Nørretranders 2022).

This is something that goes on until the particles are measured or observed. Then the particle must profess existence by choosing a state and becoming a position of either 0 or 1. But in the meantime, and before they are observed, the particles are in many states at once, a superposition. The experiments that are done today with a quantum computer are therefore based on not exposing particles to any kind of disturbance by freezing them at very low temperatures (Nørretranders 2022).

What does this mean when agential cuts are made in a research process? In agential cuts (Barad 2007; Juelskjær 2019), the becoming of the phenomena is disturbed by the articles of which they consist, which contributes to the creation of differences in what constitutes a whole. This contributes to the phenomenon of going from superposition to position and creating a duality between subject and object.

Quantum physics shows that if something changes in one phenomenon, something will occur in the other phenomenon. The guiding methodological question, therefore, becomes: What happens at another place than where agential cuts are set? It is to this that place the researcher must direct the attention. What happens at the opposite poles? If the condition of one changes, the other does so with the same Which makes it possible to understand how the phenomenon becomes by depicting the compositions that connect the phenomena. Something that is methodologically important for the development of agential realism and other perspectives that use agential cuts in their research.

Forskargruppen Praxisnær forskning och postkvalitative metoder

Inbjuder till seminarium tisdag 10 januari kl 13.00, Møterom Halden C2-208, det går också fint att vara med på Zoom.

Bosse Bergstedt presenterar ett nyskrivit bokmanus med titeln: ATT BLI TILL MED VÄRLDEN. Essäer om partiklar, kroppar, poesi, pedagogik och andra gränsfenomen

Vi samtalar om aktuell forskning och om boken Immersive Cartography and Post-Qualitative Inquiry.

Nyheter 2022

Forskargruppen Praxisnära forskning och postkvalitative metoder 

Inbjuder till seminarium torsdag 17 nov kl 13.00.

Program

Samira Jamouchi presenterar sitt PhD projekts research design genom att visualisera med teckningar. Research design with drawings som också innehåller ett läsförslag.

Bosse Bergstedt presenterar en artikel om författaren Orhan Pamuks museum, Tingens oskuldsfulla hemlighet: The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul. Artikeln  publiceras inom kort i tidskriften Nordisk Museologi.

Disputation

Michael Peter Jensen forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling med titlen Skriversubjektivitet i det multimodale danskfag. En posthuman undersøgelse af affekt, krop og materialitet i skriveundervisningen.

14 oktober 2022kl 13.00 -16.00 på Aalborg universitet København 

Lokal 2.1.043, Aalborg universitet, A. C Maeyes vænge 14, 2450 København

Bedømmelsekmitte: Professor Mie Buhl, Aalborg Universitet, Professor Nikolaj Elf, Syddansk Universitet, Professor Bosse Bergsted, Østfold University College

Info: https://www.aau.dk/ph-d-forsvar-ved-michael-peter-jensen-e40634

Nystartad forskargruppen vid Høgskolen i Østfold

Praxisnära forskning och postkvalitativa metoder

Vårt första möte blir tisdag 6 september kl 14.00-16.00 i Halden Styrerom och på Zoom.

Vi kommer att samlas kring deltagarna erfarenheter och intressen med särskilt fokus på nya kvalitativa forskningsmetoder. Något av det vi kan komma att arbeta med är multisensoriska metoder som experimenterar med olika kreativa metoder som fotografering, videoinspelningar, teckningar, ljudinspelning, anteckningar, GPS-spårning, kroppskameror m.m. Det som kännetecknar dessa metoder är att forska och tänka med kroppen och dess sinnen och affekter.

Konferens

ECER 2022 Yerevan, 22 - 25 August 2022

Conference team: Education in a Changing World: The impact of global realities on the prospects and experiences of educational research

Accepted paper: 

Haptic sensorium: a method for researching phenomena becoming with the world

This paper describes a project that has developed a new method that is called haptic sensorium. This is a methodology that makes it possible to study the emergence of phenomena when bodies and matter connect. Theoretically, the project is in close connection with research in posthumanism and new materialism, and our ambitions have been to create new knowledge in the fields of ethnology and post-qualitative methods (S:t Pierre 2013, Juleskjær 2020). To be able to develop new methods, we have attached particular importance to starting from an ontological perspective.

The research question for this paper is therefore to develop a methodology perspective that is based on an ontology of becoming that is inspired by internal realism (Davidsson 2020, Bergstedt 2021a, 2021b). How can thinking with the world generate knowledge about the becoming of phenomena?

This paper is structured into three parts. The first part describes an ontology of becoming. The advantage is that it assumes that there is a difference between the world itself and how it is described (Grosz 2018). Therefore, it is important to see what the world can do, its functions, and its effects. Deleuze and Guattari assume that the world does not need anything other than what it has in itself; it is neutral and is its cause. The fact that the world can be and is created in itself contributes to an internal principle, an inner self-differentiation Deleuze and Guattari, 2015). A is non-A and A at the same time. This means that what we experience through our bodies and physical senses is the world itself in a concrete and physical sense.

The second part of the paper will describe a method that we called a haptic sensorium. The concept of the sensorium, which comes from the Latin term “sensus”, describes the place in the brain that perceives changing sensory impressions, which include sensation, perception, and interpretation of experiences, both in the body and of other phenomena (Paterson 2009, Juleskjær 2020).

To this sensorium, we bring the concept of “haptic”. Haptic means that the body is directed towards being touched and to touch (Barad 2007, Juelskjær 2019). The haptic ability is important as it provides a physical opportunity to touch the phenomena being explored. By allowing a diversity of the body’s changing sensory impressions to be combined with touch, we arrive at the concept of haptic sensorium. The haptic sensorium helps us in mixing a variety of senses, enabling a wider openness towards the world in which we participate. This allows greater attention to the appearances of unconscious bodily effects during the research processes (Paterson 2009, Bergstedt 2021b).

The third part of this paper shows how phenomena can be explored with a haptic sensorium. Among these, special focus is placed on the phenomenon of sound. Listening to the sound of becoming phenomena opens up new possibilities for understanding how phenomena connect and come into being with the world. We develop a special form av listening to that called multisensory listening, which will assist in creating our understanding of how our bodies are transcorporeal and always more than just human (Alaimo 2012, William 2021).

This is a form of listening that for example can practice by listening to shores, where land and sea meet and mingle. (Rowlings, 2020.) By multisensory listening with sand, rocks, shells, water, wind, and plants,  new insights can be created, insights into how matter and bodies connect. Research that can give us new knowledge of how bodies and matter connect and have an ethical implication for awareness of the responsibility and care in human-nature relations.

Föreläsning

Sjønlitterære virkemidler i formidling av faglittertur.

Professor i pædagogik Bosse Bergstedt fortæller, hvordan han har skabt korte fiktionstekster om forskellige pædagogiske tænkere som Hanne Arndt, Maria Montessori og Martin Luther mv. i sin bog Pædagogik for forandring – stemmer der udfordrede viden og samfundet.

Vestjyllands Højskole, 7  juli 2022.

Konferens

NERA 2022 Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-3 June, 2022

Conference team: Education and involvement in precarious times

Accepted paper:

Pedagogy of the moment – where the world evokes knowledge

This paper explores how the moment can say something about the becoming of phenomena and what it can mean for pedagogy. The purpose is to broaden the understanding of the conditions and possibilities of the moment and to contribute to a re-thinking of pedagogy.

The context for exploring the pedagogy of the moment is that more and more theoretical perspectives have come to direct interest in what happens in situations of various kinds, such as Bohr's quantum leap (2013), Haraway's situated learning (1988), Badiou's events, Derrida's differences (1978), Barthe's details (1986), Spinoza's affects (2001), Lacan's leaks (1989), Barad's cuts (2007) and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome (2015).

Why are situations and events so important? To be able to understand this, an ontological perspective is needed (Bergstedt 2021a) Therefore, this paper describes an internal realism where the world is created in itself (Danielsson 2020). This means that there is a world but the way to create it can take many different forms. The starting point is a world created through an internal principle, an inner self-differentiation itself. A as non-A and A simultaneously (Deleuze, Guattari 2015, Grosz 2018).

This means that pedagogy can be understood from new points of departure. This can be done by broadening the subject and relying on the senses of the body. These are in direct contact with the repetition of the world, which creates great diversity and thus also affects various kinds. In the paper, this is methodically developed in the form of a haptic sensorium (Juelskjær 2020, Bergstedt 2021b).

It helps to develop an ability to point out the moments that enable the discovery of how phenomena become (Barad 2007). Which can lead to a more ethical and less aggressive way of relating to the world than that which has characterized a modern age. The important thing is not to teach knowledge but to point out what it is that makes knowledge become.

Nyheter 2021

Webinar Bag-lady Storytelling

Forskargruppen om posthumanism och new materialism håller nytt webinar på Zoom

Torsdag 28 oktober 2021 kl 15.00 (obs nytt datum)

https://hiof.zoom.us/j/65224088946?pwd=dWtCejYzYm1jYUc5OEZ0SDFnM3RXdz09

Denna gång samtalar vi om Chessa Adsit-Morris bok Restorying Environmental Education Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 med focus på Chapter 3: Bag-lady Storytelling: The Carrier-bag Theory of Fiction as Research Praxis

“Bag-lady Storytelling” is a performative methodology, a creative (re)twist of Ursula Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” into a new materialist methodology. Using the figuration of Trudy, the chatty Times Square bag-lady character in the one-woman Broadway play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the author conducts a feminist critique of traditional research methodologies and draws together theories of research that inform, instead, the practice of research as Baglady storytelling, a performative research praxis of gathering stories/ ideas/theories and creating habitual nomadic research patterns. Such a praxis requires a different logic, an attunement and attentiveness to what gets gathered up, used, shared; an attentiveness to which seeds should be saved for future reseeding, for future reworlding.

Torsdag 16 september kl 15.00 samtalar vi om boken Thinking with Water av Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis med utgångspunkt i inledningen Introduction: Toward a Hydrological Turn?

Zoom: https://hiof.zoom.us/j/61107465096?pwd=amhOSHE0SHlnZmdOMElnOTJKcHljdz09

Fenomen som vatten, ljud och ljus ges allt större uppmärksamhet. Hur kan det komma sig, vad är det som är så specifikt med dessa ”flyktiga” fenomen? Hur kan de vidga vår förståelse för hur fenomen blir till?

Thinking with Water invites readers to consider how water - with its potent symbolic power, its familiarity, and its unique physical and chemical properties - is a lively collaborator in our ways of knowing and acting. What emerges is both a rich opportunity to encourage more thoughtful environmental engagement and a challenge to common oppositions between nature and culture.

Seminarierna är öppna för alla intresserade, det krävs ingen förhandsanmälan. Kontakta bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no för mer information.

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Fredag 28 maj kl 13.00 Chaos, Territory, Art. Deleuze and the  framing of the earth

Vi fortsätter att samtala om konst, materialitet och filosofi, denna gång läser vi första kapitlet i Elizabeth Grosz bok Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth.

Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She also teaches gender studies and architecture at the University of Bergen, Norway, and The University of Sydney, Australia.

Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention and aesthetic.

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Onsdag 28 april kl 13.00 om begreppet ”shimmering”

Vi fortsätter att utforska fenomens materiella kopplingar och deras relation med världen. Den här gången samtalar vi om begreppet ”shimmering” med inspiration från en artikel av Karen Malone och hennes kollegor. Kan begreppet ”shimmering” ha en potential inom posthumanism? Kan dess omfattande ljus med cell och molekylära vibrationer få oss att se världen på ett nytt sätt?

Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theorymaking with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists, Karen Malone, Marianne Logan, Lisa Siegel, Julie Regalado and Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen, in Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2020), 1–17

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Fredag 26 mars kl. 13.00-15.00 samtalar vi om Aesthetic Explorations with recycled materials Concepts.

Denna gång följer vi upp två tidigare seminarier om Placmaking och  Transcorporeal pedagogy med att samtala om Nina Odegards doktorsavhandling, Aesthetic Explorations with recycled materials Concepts, ideas and phenomena that matter. Avhandlingens “kappa” bifogas som fil och vi inleder ett samtal kring texten med att diskutera metodkapitlet Chapter 2: Materials that matter/s/ed and “other ideas”, s. 18–31.

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Onsdag 24 februari kl 13.00-15.00 samtalar vi om Transcorporeal pedagogy.

Till seminariet finns två texter: Transcorporeality: An Interview with Stacy Alaimo, av Julia Kuznetski, Tallinn University, Estonia

Mattering pedagogy in precarious times of (un)learning, av Malou Juelskjær Arhus University

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Fredag 29 januari 13.00 – 15.00 samtalar viom Tara Page nya bok Placemaking: A New Materialist Theory of pedagogy, Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Tara Page is an artist, researcher, teacher and Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London

 Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page enables us to learn and understand how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies. She shows how our bodily engagements in and with the material world are intra-actions of the who, with the where.The creative and multi-dimensional approach of this book, with links to photographs-creative practices to be read with the text, brings together the global with the local, practice with theory and demonstrates the complex pedagogy between bodies, places and everyday social relations of power. Page reveals that placemaking is the very experiential fact of our existence but, is also a necessary one.

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Webinar Onsdag 16 december kl 13.00 – 15.00 träffas vi på Zoom för att fortsätta att samtala om Angela Rawlings avhandling Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities        of  North Atlantic foreshores (2020). Till denna gång läser vi  Chapter 2: Methodologies, s 47-84.

Rawlings avhandling: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/81372/1/2020rawlingsphd.pdf

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Måndag 30 november 13.00 – 15.00 samtalar vi om Angela Rawlings avhandling Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores (2020), och läser särskilt Introduction s. 16-23 och Chapter 1: Literature and Practice Review s 24-44. Kontakta bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no för mer information.

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Onsdag 14 oktober 13.00 – 15.00 på Zoom. Vi fortsätter samtala om Elisabeth Grosz bok The Incorporeal på Zoom. Denna gång om kap 2 Spinoza, substance, and attributes (s 54 – 91)  och Conclusion (s 249 - 262). Kontakta bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no för mer information.

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Fredag 18 septemer kl 13.00 – 15.00 på Zoom. Vi samtalar om Elisabeth Grosz bok The Incorporeal (2017) Till seminariet läser vi Introducation, s 1-14 samt Anders Dunkers intervju med Elisabeth Grosz. Kontakta bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no för mer information.

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Fredag 14 augusti kl 13.00 – 15.00 på Zoom. Denna gång kommer vi att samtala om en av Jane Bennets senaste artiklar Mimesis: Paradox or Encounter.

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Fredag 26 juni kl 13.00-15.00. Samtalar om  Mel Y Chens bok Animaciens. Biopolitics. Radical Mattering, and queer Affect, denna gång om Part 3, Metals, s 159-239. Kontakta bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no för mer information.