Monstrøse Medieringer: En posthumanistisk portefølje af mærkelige metoder

Abstract

Methodology is the design laboratory of research: what counts and what does not count as knowledge? This article explores monstrous mediations as a set of ‘strange’, exploratory methods that can open up radically new research practices. Monstrous mediations can generate situated materializations of affect, atmosphere, and more-than-human agency – dimensions of knowledge production and research practice that are otherwise difficult to grasp. Three examples – performative schizoid methods, monstrous writing, and more-than-human ethnography – are unfolded through annotated portfolios, a format borrowed from design research. The annotated portfolio collects creative works, comments on them, reads across them, and derives cross-cutting themes. Monstrous mediations can be applied as a research methodology for exploring how knowledge emerges in socio-material environments. The empirical cases are from research on learning processes, but the methodological contribution is developed as a posthuman research approach that extends beyond this specific domain and can also inform practice.