Collaborating in the electric age: [onto]Riffological experiments in posthumanizing education and theorizing a machinic arts-based research

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dc.contributor.authorStevens, Shannon Rae
dc.contributor.supervisorPrendergast, Monica
dc.contributor.supervisorEmme, Michael J.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-06T01:47:55Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021-02-05
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractCollaborating in the Electric Age: [onto]Riffological Experiments in Posthumanizing Education and Theorizing a Machinic Arts-Based Research is a study about locating opportunities and entry points for introducing consideration of the nonhuman and posthuman to pedagogical perspectives that are traditionally concerned with human beings and epistemological subjects. The research, herein, engages doings in collaborative effort, during conditions of unprecedented interconnectedness facilitated by the electric age. Steeped in a environment thus created by technologies’ immense ubiquity and influence, this collaboration endeavours to recognize their full research participation, alongside that of humans. This research presents collaboratively conducted, published inquiries that have been coauthored by myself and fellow doctoral candidate Richard Wainwright. Each facilitates, then attempts to articulate ways to decentre the human in educational contexts, beginning with our own human perspectives. As exercises in broadening our considerations of the life forms, matter, and nonhuman entities that surround humanity, this research prompts us to recognize much more than what humanity typically acknowledges as existing, given the anthropocentric frameworks it has constructed. We reorientate the nature of these relationships—posthumanizing them—and in doing so, disrupt our own thinking to work something different than our circumstances have hitherto informed us to consider. We have co-developed a study and conducted research in collaboration with human and nonhuman research participants.Five nationally and internationally published co-authored journal articles, a book chapter, and five intermezzos (short “observational” pieces) comprise this study that explores collaboration and recombinatoriality during “the electric age” (McLuhan, 1969, 10:05). Recognizing humanity’s increasingly inextricable relationships with technologies, this collaboratively conducted study draws into creative assemblage Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophical concepts; new materialism as cultural theory; the prescient observations and predictions of Marshall McLuhan and a media studies curriculum he co-developed over forty years ago; arts-based research; museum exhibitions; features of music production such as sampling, mashup, remix, and turntabling; among many other notes and tones. A conceptually developed riff mobilizes our inquiries as “plug in and play,” while its academic study is theorized as [onto]Riffology. Ontological shifts beget a machinic arts-based research (MABR) that develops a posthuman critical pedagogy inspired by Negri and Guattari (2010). Collaborating in the Electric Age: [onto]Riffological Experiments in Posthumanizing Education and Theorizing a Machinic Arts-Based Research celebrates collaborativity, discovery, and learning during the electric age.en_US
dc.description.embargo2023-01-07
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationStevens, S., & Wainwright, R. (2016). [Onto]Riffology: Explorations into collaboration, assemblage and learning events. In M. Bernico & M. Kölke (Eds.), Ontic flows: From digital humanities to posthumanities (pp. 163-183). Atropos.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationStevens, S., & Wainwright, R. (2019). Shady figures and shifting grounds for re/truthing: Channeling McLuhan’s posthuman. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 13(3), 108-121. https://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/view/833en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationWainwright, R., & Stevens, S. (2017). MashUp at the Vancouver Art Gallery: “In review” [onto]riffologically. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 2(1), 166- 184. https://doi.org/10.18432/R2G04Ten_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationWainwright, R., & Stevens, S. (2020) Posthumanizing McLuhan’s curriculum: Riffing on city as classroom. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 17(2), 51-66.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationStevens, S., & Wainwright, R. (2020). Review of “the anthropocene project”: Treachery in images. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 5(2), 567-584.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12665
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectCollaboratingen_US
dc.subjectElectric ageen_US
dc.subject[onto]Riffologyen_US
dc.subjectPosthumanen_US
dc.subjectPosthuman educationen_US
dc.subjectMachinic arts-based researchen_US
dc.subjectMABRen_US
dc.subjectPosthuman critical pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectTurntablingen_US
dc.subjectForceworken_US
dc.subjectRiffen_US
dc.subjectArts-based researchen_US
dc.subjectRiffologyen_US
dc.subjectMashUpen_US
dc.subjectMash upen_US
dc.subjectVancouver Art Galleryen_US
dc.subjectVAGen_US
dc.subjectTreachery of imagesen_US
dc.subjectMarshall McLuhanen_US
dc.subjectCity as classroomen_US
dc.subjectHypercityen_US
dc.subjectFigure/ground analysisen_US
dc.subjectThanatourismen_US
dc.subjectBootstrappingen_US
dc.subjectRemixen_US
dc.subjectCollaborationen_US
dc.subjectThe Anthropocene Projecten_US
dc.subjectIn-Reviewen_US
dc.subjectDeleuzoGuattarian conceptsen_US
dc.subjectPoststructuralist philosophyen_US
dc.subjectPosthumanismen_US
dc.subjectCritical pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectRecombinatorialityen_US
dc.subjectAssemblageen_US
dc.subjectLearning eventen_US
dc.subjectThe Jimmy Dore Showen_US
dc.subjectJimmy Doreen_US
dc.subjectNonhumanen_US
dc.subjectSpeculative realismen_US
dc.subjectPost truth eraen_US
dc.subjectLand acknowledgementsen_US
dc.subjectOntologiesen_US
dc.titleCollaborating in the electric age: [onto]Riffological experiments in posthumanizing education and theorizing a machinic arts-based researchen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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