Writing and Immanence

Concept Making and the Reorientation of Thought in Pedagogy and Inquiry

Ken Gale

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780367723187
• eBook ISBN: 9781000804904
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Psychology

Writing and Immanence is a book that is attentive to the unabatingly potent, sometimes agonistic, forces at play in the continuing unfoldings of crises of representation. As immanent doing, the writing in the book writes to destabilise the orthodoxies, conventions and unquestioned givens of writing in the academy and, in so doing, is troubled by the ontogenetic uncertainties of its own writing coming into being.

In the always active processualism of presencing, the fragility of word and concept creation animates, what Meillassoux has described as 'the absolute necessity of the contingency of everything'. In working to avoid the formational and structural linearities of a series of numbered consecutive chapters, the book is constructed in and around the movements of the always actualising capaciousness of Acts. In offering engagements with education research and pedagogy and always sensitive to the dynamics of multiplicity, each Act emanates from and feeds into other en(Act)ments in the unfolding emergence of the book. Hence, in agencement, the book offers multiple points of entry and departure.

Deleuze has said that a creator is 'someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities…it's by banging your head on the wall that you find a way through.' Therefore, the writing of this book writes to the writing, pedagogic and qualitative research practices of those in education and the humanities who are writing to the creation of such impossibilities.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• A prelude?
• An act of introduction? Introducing? Middling? Book beginnings?
• Acts of embodiment: Bodies/bodying/(em)bodying …
• Acts of process over substance
• Acts of affective presencing
• Acts of returning to the rhizome
• Acts with and of posthuman empiricisms
• Acts of resistance to the urge to transparency
• Acts of diary, notebook and journal making
• Writing acts as immanent doing
• The final act?: How can becomings conclude?
• References
• Index