1st Edition
Posthuman Adventuring Moments, Movements, Encounters...
List of Images
Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction: Kicking Off - Jocey Quinn
1. Adventures in Posthuman chitchatting: between age/s, relations, and flows - Joanna Haynes and Lois Peach
2. Making kin: grandmothering - Marie Lavelle
3. Dis/orientations with more-than-human whisperings: a feminist vibrant materialist exploration of the eye/I in auto-ethnography - Claudia Blandon
4. Stories from the school bus - Cath Gristy
5. Notes on Dis-ease and Death - Elizabeth Done
6. Clearing? Between the three, four and more-than - Helen Bowstead, Ken Gale, Mary Catherine Garland
7. Efflorescence: How Art Transforms Research - Carole Baker
8. A Posthuman Journey To ‘Becoming-Bear’ - Gail Flockhart
9. Languaging the infrathin of the everyday un/clear - Edward Reardon and Claire Walsh
10. More-than a sketchbook - Simon Webster
11. My night with the trees in the forest - Caroline Mikhail
Biography
Mary Catherine Garland is an independent scholar. Inspired, encouraged and supported by the Adventures in Posthumanism Research Network during her doctoral studies at the University of Plymouth and beyond, she is committed to using research and writing practices which foster speculative and experimental approaches.
Joanna Haynes is Associate Professor at Plymouth University Institute of Education. Together with Professor Jocey Quinn she founded and coordinates the Adventures in Posthumanism Network https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/education/adventures-in-posthumanism. Joanna’s background is in philosophy and her research interests include community and democratic education; age and intergenerational relations; and philosophy in/of everyday life.
Helen Bowstead has worked at the University of Plymouth for over fifteen years teaching English for Academic Purpose and TESOL. Her doctoral thesis explores how working with Erin Manning’s concepts of research-creation and thought-in-motion has the potential to open up spaces for creative and innovative educational orientations.
Ken Gale is a member of the Adventures in Posthumanism Research group at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He has published widely and presented at a number of international conferences on the philosophy of education.
Jocey Quinn is Professor of Lifelong Learning at University of Plymouth UK. Her research focuses on adults learning, particularly in everyday life and beyond formal educational spaces. With Dr Joanna Haynes she founded Adventures in Posthumanism.
'A generous, transdisciplinary collection of essays centred on research and engagement with theories of the more-than-human turn in diverse educational settings. The scholarly risk-taking and careful reading and writing by the authors offer insights and models for those of us interested in doing academia differently.'
Sarah Truman, Associate Professor - University of Melbourne.
'Alfred North Whitehead famously wrote: “Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophical thought has done its best the wonder remains.” Posthuman Adventures boldly meets the call of wonder, sidles it with care, and lets it do its work. In play, it asks how else thought can move (us) to the limit, how writing can write other ways of being into the world. It’s a joy to read.'
