“Why not suppose that thinking is not in alignment with the world and not upright in character, that it can be contrary toward things outside of itself and can be playful and ill-mannered as well as upright? Under this set of contestable assumptions, thinking becomes a conglomeration of intentions, leaps, intensities, trace elements, and accidents, out of which emerge the surprises that temporarily jar humans out of the stupor of their duly sequential representing and recognizing.”
Bennett, Jane. ‘The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics’. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. p52-53
Created in 2016, The Promise of a Scattered Methodology is an ‘exploded essay’ that is simultaneously both a celebration and shattering of the tenuous relationships between things. While looking for a method to decentre the subject / author, it was informed by Jean-Francois Lyotard’s ‘petit recits / little narratives’ (The Postmodern Condition, 1979) and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic thinking (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1987). Made-up from a constellation of matter/s that echo and return to themselves, forming intentional loops as a method for reflection, The Promise of a Scattered Methodology is loosely configured, with pop-up messages that serve as loose ends rather than dead ends.