Participation's 'Others': Spaces Between
2014
Experimental drawings made during individual researcher's presentations at the retreat and experimental soundscape based on recordings made during the week.
Participation's 'Others': a cartography of creative listening practices
Lynton-Lynford, North Devon, September 15–19, 2014
Academic Retreat for members of the Authority Research Network (http://www.authorityresearch.net/blog/participations-others-retreat) and invited participants, developed by Dr Julian Brigstocke, Cardiff University and Dr Tehseen Noorani, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
Publication now available - ARN Press ISBN 978-0-9575882-1-9
http://www.authorityresearch.net/essay-collection-listening-with-non-human-others.html
From the original proposal by Dr Brigstocke and Dr Noorani:
This residential summer retreat explored experimental techniques for involving actors who lack a conventionally understood ‘voice’ in participatory practices. Such actors might include: the not-yet-living; more-than-human life; objects and technologies; gods and supernatural forces; and past generations. Drawing on post-humanist theoretical approaches (such as new materialisms, post-phenomenology, and actor-network theory), the retreat explored creative methods for listening to, understanding, and thinking with more-than-human and material political agencies, focusing in particular on how these methods help us conceptualize and practice forms of democratic participation. Key questions included:
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How are more-than-human actors, future generations, objects, or other ‘voiceless’ agencies mobilized in participatory research and politics?
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Through what forms of ‘creative listening’ can the multiplicity of political agencies be recognized?
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How should recognizing the diversity of forms of political agency affect the practice and techniques of participatory democracy?
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Who has the authority to represent or speak on behalf of material, more-than-human or not-yet-living agencies? How can this authority be made legitimate?