Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, And Future Perspectives

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This book explores genealogies and the challenges related to the concept of the postdigital, the ambiguous nature of postdigital knowledges, and the many faces of postdigital sensibilities. The book answers three key questions: What is postdigital knowledge? What does it mean to do postdigital research? What, if anything, is distinct from research conducted in other perspectives? As such, this book is a one-stop publication for those interested in the theory of postdigital research. Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives is complemented by Constructing Postdigital Research: Method and Emancipation, also edited by Petar Jandrić, Alison MacKenzie, and Jeremy Knox, which explores these questions in practice. Series Editor’s Preface References Foreword In Search of The Postdigital: A Conversation with ChatGPT Reference Introduction Why This Book? What’s in the Book? Part I: What Is Postdigital? Part II: Postdigital Research Part III: Postdigital Sensibilities Part IV: Postdigital Agencies How to Use This Book? The Postdigital Science and Education Publishing Ecosystem This Is Not a Blueprint References Acknowledgements Republished Chapters The CUC 2022 – Opening in a Closed World: Postdigital Science and Education Conference Contents About the Editors About the Authors Part I: What Is Postdigital? Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives 1 What Binds Us Together? 2 A Brief Genealogy 3 Against Definitions 4 The Curious Dance Between Epistemology and Methodology 5 An Invitation to Dialogue References Histories of the Postdigital 1 Introduction 2 What’s in a Concept? 3 Postdigital Arts and Humanities 4 Postdigital Science and Education 4.1 Postdigital Science and Education Journal 5 Special Issues in Postdigital Science and Education 6 Postdigital Science and Education Book Series 6.1 Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education 7 What Makes Us Different? 8 Conclusion 9 Epilogue: Invitation for Discussion and Received Commentary 9.1 Invitation for Discussion 10 Received Commentary 10.1 Eamon Costello 10.2 Sean Sturm 10.3 Anonymous Responders 10.4 Response to Received Commentary References Towards a Theory of Postdigital Parity 1 Introduction 2 Postdigitalism’s Pedigree 2.1 Nicholas Negroponte 2.2 Posthumanism 2.3 Music Theory and the Arts 3 Radical Non-Human/Human Symmetry 4 Anti-Theory or Theory 5 Relative Equality of the Digital/Predigital 6 In Pursuit of Postdigital Parity 7 Three Candidate Theories 7.1 Com-Post 7.2 Cybernetics/Systems Theory 7.3 Transaction 8 Pluralism and Parity in Postdigital Research References Postdigital/More-Than-Digital: Ephemerality, Seclusion, and Copresence in the University 1 Introduction 2 Origins of the Postdigital 3 Inseparability/Permeation/Ubiquity, and Twine 4 Separability and Tangible Absence 5 Networked Learning 6 The Meshwork 7 Ephemerality, Seclusion, and Copresence 7.1 Ephemerality 7.2 Seclusion 7.3 Copresence 8 Fugitive Practices 9 Boltholes and Breathing Spaces 10 More-Than-Digital 11 Conclusions References Part II: Postdigital Research Mapping and Tracing the Postdigital: Approaches and Parameters of Postdigital Research 1 Prologue 2 Introduction 3 Different Lenses of a Postdigital View 4 Mapping and Tracing the Postdigital 5 Postdigital Inquiry and Research as Creative 6 Ontologies: Locating a Postdigital Tradition While Encouraging Interdisciplinarity 7 Ingredients for Postdigital Research 7.1 An Essential Ingredient for Postdigital Research: An On-Yet-Around Focus 7.2 Desirable Ingredients 7.2.1 Including Diverse Voices and Perspectives 7.2.2 Fostering Transdisciplinarity 7.2.3 Working Creatively, Speculatively, and Compositionally 7.3 What Makes Good Postdigital Research? 8 Conclusions References Big Bioinformational Education Sciences: New Biodigital Methods and Knowledge Production in Education 1 Introduction 2 Bioinformation and Education 3 Big Bioinformational Education Sciences 4 Biodigital Methods 5 Bioinformational Knowledge 6 Conclusion References Historical Materialism: A Postdigital Philosophical Method 1 Introduction 2 Base-Superstructure as a Temporal Metaphor 3 From the Metaphor to Action 4 The Lonely Hour of the Economy Never Comes 5 The Biology and Science of Historical Materialism 6 An Apathetic Method 7 Conclusion References Postdigital Practical Axiology 1 Introduction 2 Hyperspecialisation, Tacit Knowledge, and Education’s ‘Codification Bottleneck’ 3 Modelling Tacit Knowledge in Education and Industry 4 Postdigital Research as Catalysis: Powerful Disrupters and Effective Organisation 5 Values and Distinctions in Education 6 Liminal Dynamics 7 Individuation 8 The Logic of Postdigital Betweenness 9 Conclusion: Good Regulators and Models of Good Regulators References Part III: Postdigital Sensibilities Postdigital Research in Education: Towards Vulnerable Method and Praxis 1 Introduction 2 Mess and Uncertainty 3 (Re)Conceptualising Vulnerability in and for Postdigital Times 4 Towards a Framework for Vulnerable Method 4.1 Praxis-Oriented and Reflexive 4.2 Relational and Collaborative 4.3 Radically Multiple 4.4 Emancipatory 5 Testing the Framework Retrospectively: Two Research Examples 6 Conclusion: Towards Postdigital Vulnerability References Caring Cuts: Unfolding Methodological Sensibilities in Researching Postdigital Worlds 1 Introduction 2 Researching Postdigital Worlds 2.1 Educational Posthumanist Research 2.2 Postdigital Education 2.3 More-Than-Digital Methodologies 3 Unfolding Relational Materialism 3.1 Matters of Care: Non-innocent and Generative Potentials 3.2 Cuts as the Temporary Manifestation of Matter 3.3 Caring Cuts: Sensibilities of the Making of Researchable Worlds 4 Methodological Sensibilities: Putting Caring Cuts to Work 4.1 Example 1: Trust and Modest Interruptions with Research Technologies 4.2 Example 2: Uneventful Research Events with Educational Technology 5 Caring Cuts for Thinking/Researching/Doing Digital Worlds Anew References Vestigial Research for Postdigital Pataphysics 1 Introduction 2 The Postdigital as Expenditure 3 Protocols for Nonknowledge 4 The Acéphalic Researcher 5 David Cronenberg: Images of Postdigital, Achephalic Research 6 Conclusion References Part IV: Postdigital Agencies Postdigital Research and Human Agency 1 Introduction 2 The Metaverse 3 Difference, Determination, and Opposition 4 The Logic of Incarnation 5 Robot Rights 6 Robot Agency 7 Distributed Agency 8 An Alternative Ontology 9 Assemblages 10 Conclusion References Researching With, On, In and Through the Postdigital: Accounting for More-Than-Humanness 1 Introduction 2 Methodological Assemblings 3 Attuning to More-Than-Humanness 3.1 Taking Your AI Out for Coffee: Possible Overtures? 3.2 Re-Thinking Human-Digital Relations: More Speculative and Provisional? 3.3 Becoming with: Articulating More-Than-Humanness? 4 Conclusion References Collective Writing: The Continuous Struggle for Meaning-Making 1 Introduction: Herding Cats, Building Narratives (Petar Jandrić) 1.1 Methodology 1.2 Synthesis 1.3 Herding Cats, Building Narratives 2 Praxis and Methodology of Collective Writing (Timothy W. Luke) 3 Openness to Collective Writing; Collective Writing as Openness… (Sean Sturm) 4 Collective Writing and Academic Labour (Peter McLaren) 5 Collective Writing and Peer Co-production, Peer Review, and Peer Systems of Control (Liz Jackson) 6 Collective Writing as a Form of Relational Epistemology Without Foundations (Alison MacKenzie) 7 Collective Writing as Data (Marek Tesar) 8 Repositories of Indigenous Knowledge and Identity (Georgina Tuari Stewart) 9 Collective Writing as an Ethical System: Trust, Integrity, and Collegiality (Peter Roberts) 10 Collective Writing as an Emancipatory Practice (Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield) 11 Collective Writing as Positionality (Sarah Hayes) 12 Collective Writing and the Collective Public Ownership of Production and Idea-Generation: Knowledge Socialism in Terms of Different Relationships Between the University and Society (Jimmy Jaldemark) 13 Conclusion: Collective Writing, Openness, and Co(labor)ation: Collective Research, Writing, and Pedagogy in an Era of Knowledge Socialism (Michael A. Peters) 14 Review 1: Showing the Workings of Collaborative Writing (Christine Sinclair) 15 Review 2: Good Game/Got Game/Game On/Game Over (Andrew Gibbons) Appendix 1 Workflow Appendix 2 Reading List References Afterword: So, What *Is* Postdigital Research? References Index