Cartographies of Memory and Affect: Nomadic Subjectivities

Authors

  • Maureen A Flint The University of Alabama

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29359

Keywords:

posthuman, mapping, arts-based inquiry, nomadic philosophy, methodologies

Abstract

This visual essay maps an event, the lines of affect produced through the interconnections between memory/time, space/place, and the virtual/actual. The assemblage begins in the middle of these interconnections: lines of text interwoven with intensity and affect. As posthuman theory urges researchers to consider subjectivity as unbounded and nomadic, a process of becoming with the world, this article takes up arts-based methods to map and inquire into the flows between death and becoming as a generative, embodied, and productive process. This article suggests the methodological possibilities for arts-based analysis and inquiry to engage the entangled materiality of the posthuman present.

Author Biography

Maureen A Flint, The University of Alabama

Maureen A. Flint is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies at the University of Alabama. She has a background as a practitioner in higher education administration and holds a BFA in fashion design from Pratt Institute. Her research explores higher education contexts through feminist and post-qualitative theories and artful methodologies.

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Cover image by John Rae, No limit, 76 X 56 cm acrylic and collage

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Published

2018-09-15

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Flint, M. A. (2018). Cartographies of Memory and Affect: Nomadic Subjectivities. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(2), 6–19. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29359

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2018): Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal

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Art/Research Theoretical Musings

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