Come on Dear Gal: On Learning Democracies; Mygazes, Mymethods, Mylanguages, Myforces, and Mychanges

• Published in: Cultural studies, critical methodologies critical methodologies, 2013-12, Vol.13 (6), p.562-569
• Main Author: Reinertsen, Anne B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accountability; Autobiography; Democracy; Ethnomethodology; Fear; Pedagogy; Scholarship; Social Responsibility
• ISSN: 1532-7086; 1552-356X
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708613503783

Thinkingfeeling my ways into and toward future intra-activist material and performance research possibilities, I argue for embracing the mobilized gaze of the flaneur to explore and create powerful blends of interpretive auto-ethnographic/-biographic/-ethnomethodology writing approaches: Mygazes: They are broad, multifaceted, and partial. They are recursive and “unselfed” (Iris Murdoch; 1919-1999). Simone Weil’s (1909-1943) onto-political concepts of (world) “attention” and “decreation” as a willed dissolution of the subjective ego are good to thinkfeel with. Accordingly, such approaches are about a scienced-up me producing myself through using knowledges without fear and my will born from it: My personal accountability and authenticity is pivotal: Mymethods: They are about the wrong pedagogy, and thus, always integrating failure as an important part of any activity. They are about word making for reimagining democratic societies; a new era of personal and social responsibility and learning democracy: Mylanguages: It is a member’s methods; My Own (Stirner, 2012) methods and from here; I am my own to thinkfeel with and me showing me Myforces and Mychanges.